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U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine speaks about Iran war at the White House in Washington on April 6.

By Nearly Every Metric, the U.S. Is Losing the Iran War “It’s irrefutable that the U.S. failed in its main strategic goals,” one expert said.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping after a welcome ceremony
in Beijing on May 14.

China, Not Iran, Is Trump’s Real Foreign-Policy Debacle In 19 months, Washington has lost ground to Beijing on every conceivable front.

U.S. President Donald Trump (left) oversees Operation Epic Fury at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, United States, on Feb. 28.

How Could Iran Happen? An Autopsy. The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East.

Pedestrians walk in Red Square in Moscow on Aug. 25.

Will Russia Ever Be ‘Normal’? Empires inevitably decline, and Putin’s project will be no exception.

Students pass a tattered Sudan flag as they leave a school south of Port Sudan on April 26.

How to Bring Peace to Sudan The president of the country’s Transitional Sovereignty Council argues that any solution must be homemade.

A driver maneuvers a Trabant, symbolic of the former East Germany, during an election campaign event for the far-right Alternative for Germany party in Oranienbaum, Germany, on June 28.

What's the Matter With Eastern Germany? German far-right populism traces back to reunification—but historians disagree about why.

Why Existential AI Fears Have Hit a Crescendo And the complicated geopolitics of slowing down the technology’s development.