The Trump administration is poised to kill another useful treaty that contributes to trans-Atlantic peace.

From St. Petersburg to Manila, a new book studies efforts to sow confusion and undermine reality.

While coverage has focused on the plight of Kurds, more Syrian locals and NGO workers face arrest and torture in the vacuum Trump created.

Since Nixon, presidential pundits and sycophants have tried to rationalize executive insanity. But no one was prepared for Trump’s Syria madness.

Hawks are telling the president to toughen up on Chinese nukes, but their plan might spur a new global atomic arms race.

Building on congressional intelligence, a new report offers a broad view on the dirty tricks trolls use to hook American servicemembers.

How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero

A radioactive mess near the Arctic Circle suggests our next superpower arms race will be even more foolish than the last one.

The sinister influence on the Senate majority leader is not the Kremlin, but a Republican Party that seeks to keep certain Americans from voting.

Robert Mueller says the threat to U.S. elections "deserves the attention of every American."

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

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

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

Democrats were quick to condemn Trump after comments welcoming foreign "dirt," but their refusal to do more mirrors a recently retired senator.

Trump is inviting foreign meddling in American democracy (again), and the Democrats aren't doing enough to stop him (again).

In an Oval Office interview, President Trump said he'd welcome election help from a foreign source. That's not just unethical; it's illegal.

Jared Diamond struggles to understand a connected world.

The Russian writer Maxim Osipov was best known as a medical doctor, until he began to publish arresting, empathetic stories of sickness and treatment.

Barry Sussman, who edited Woodward and Bernstein at The Washington Post, discusses the president, Putin, and what the media must fix.

On the mournful threads connecting Joe Biden’s half-century in politics