The current political crisis is the result of a July 20 election in Japan’s upper house, the less-powerful chamber in ...

By Luke Cooper, an associate professorial research fellow in international relations at LSE Ideas, the in-house ...

Former Ehud Olmert in recent months has emerged as one of the fiercest internal critics of his country’s war in Gaza. Olmert ...

Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former U.S. State Department ...

Howard W. French is a columnist at Foreign Policy, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and ...

Last week, Trump announced a sweeping 50 percent tariff on all Brazilian exports to the United States beginning Aug. 1. In a ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at how Japan ’s election results could hamper U.S. trade talks, Israeli ...

Test yourself on the week of July 12: Australia begins war-fighting drills, Trump threatens further tariffs, and a Syrian ...

This is one of Trump’s favorite rhetorical tics —the conjuring up of a mythical community (“people are saying”) that agrees wholeheartedly with some highly questionable assertion. Who are these people ...

On July 26, Taiwan will set a new record for a developed democracy, holding recall referendums for 24 opposition legislators ...

The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Brazil reflect a larger conflict over the U.S. dollar, ...

The recent conflict with Pakistan and a deadly crash underscore issues with an aging fleet and weapons procurement.