The problem with Republican isolationism
Abandoning Ukraine is no way to make America great again
Abandoning Ukraine is no way to make America great again
Peace requires deterrence which requires military might
The U.S. retreats while China’s Communist rulers advance
Against the backdrop of deepening strategic com-petition with Beijing, Washington’s attention is steadily turning to the need for a comprehensive strategy by which to engage South Asia. Less well...
That’s the indictment handed up by COP27
A nominee with a colorful story and ‘radical’ beliefs
With the celebration of American employees on Labor Day in early September, U.S. workers enjoy what their counterparts in the highly repressive Islamic Republic of Iran cannot: the right to form and join...
The Belt and Road Initiative is about more than infrastructure
The Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Wolf Warriors’ have Secretary Pompeo in their crosshairs right now, but their agenda will outlast the Trump administration.
The Wuhan coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2 as the World Health Organization has named it and the Chinese would prefer it to be called, may be on the verge of becoming a pandemic. If it continues to spread,...
News must be new but it needn’t be surprising. The decidedly unsurprising news out of Iran last week: There was an election (of sorts) and the winner was Hassan Rouhani, the...
In the 66 years since Mao Tse-tung founded the People’s Republic of China, there has been just one brief spell in which the people of China escaped the chains of their rulers, enough to spe...
A new president has just taken office in Italy, but since the country only makes news when something bad or sexy—or both—happens, most readers north and west of the Alps probably won&...
Italy has long been Europe’s political laboratory, having invented fascism, incubated eurocommunism, launched the postwar economic miracle, and brought the social democratic nanny state to...
Vladimir Putin and I are about the same age and we went to college at about the same time. As a matter of fact, we went to college together. No, really. Putin attended Leningrad State Un...
It’s 24 years since China’s government crushed the mass uprising we remember by the name of Tiananmen Square. I was there, reporting then for the Wall Street Journal’s...
In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...
Re-litigating the Cold War and defending the honor of poor old Joe Stalin.
How Hungary's Democratic Backsliding Threatens Europe
On December 7, 1990, Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas ended his life. Forced into exile because of his political dissidence, and dying slowly of AIDS, he could no longer withstand the phys...