The United States has an interest in keeping the Eastern European state stable and its government looking legitimate. The president's phone call worked against that.

His predecessor, Theresa May, also bet on an election to solve her problems—with disastrous results.

Raise the stakes for Brazil’s president—and work with the nation's people, not against them.

The tiny island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, like other U.S. allies in the region, is receiving large numbers of refugees.

The deadly disease is a security threat only because it's neglected as a social justice issue.

In Brazil, a struggle over the future of the Amazon is taking place. The struggle will have global impact.

After another two nights of Democratic debates, the 2020 field has spent little time on some of the presidency's most consequential challenges.

Anyone who says otherwise isn't taking climate change seriously.

The new prime minister is a shape-shifter. Is he going to play the ideologue, or the opportunist?

William Eddy was one of several devout Christians in the oil business who helped build a pivotal alliance in U.S. Middle East policy.

The Azov Battalion is using mixed martial arts to prepare to fight non-Europeans—and seems to be exporting that model to the West.

A new study shows abortions actually go up when the U.S. pulls funding from NGOs offering abortion referrals. That's only one way underserved populations suffer.

The predictable result of the Trump administration's incoherent foreign policy

Theater, thwarted advisers, and a victory for Kim Jong Un

One year on from its stunning democratic coup, Armenia seems to be the new model.

Moscow's overreaction to protests in Tbilisi is a classic geopolitical story.

Pope Francis's latest amendment to Catholic doctrine connects to other policies he's promoted in the past.

A rape allegation for Donald Trump, a domestic abuse allegation for Boris Johnson, and a filmed assault by Mark Field—all in the same week.

To avoid war with Iran, the president needs to haul out his Apprentice-era catchphrase.