From Rio de Janeiro to Kanazawa, cities all over the globe are being recognized as biodiversity hot spots—and reimagining conservation in the twenty-first century.

They’ve long been a financial boondoggle that ruins lives and enriches the corporate class. This year, they might also spread a deadly Covid variant among a largely unvaccinated population.

The Biden administration’s climate strategy is starting to look a lot like tepid incrementalism.

The failed former Chicago mayor will be shipped off to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Japan, for some reason.

Elif Batuman was duped by a source’s fabrications about the country’s rent-a-family industry. What went wrong?

Ten years after the meltdown, the country’s nuclear reactors remain shut down, and there’s no clear path to reducing emissions to net zero.

White supremacists have found inspiration in the ultraviolent, ultrapopular saga.

“The Truth” builds subtly on the ambitious drama of “Shoplifters.”

Confronting the ugly legacy of military prostitution in South Korea

The reality show’s new season requires complete immersion.

The president is shaking down Tokyo and Seoul for billions more in security aid, and testing the foundations of U.S. alliances in Asia.

What high-risk communities really need to do to protect themselves from catastrophe.

The author of Hiroshima showed the world the realities of American power.

Jared Diamond struggles to understand a connected world.

A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicts self-indulgence amid the disorder of a decaying world.

For over a century, the United States has played a role in inspiring and enabling white supremacy in Australia and New Zealand.

Two decades after India tested its nuclear weapons, the country still isn't in a position to do what the United States wants from it: help counter China.

To curb China, the U.S. could increase development aid to other Asian countries. Sometimes, doing good is good strategy.

The country has reverted to de facto one-party rule. But there are signs that Japan's democracy is not dead yet.