After two years, we returned to Davos, braving the Swiss mountain cold for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. The...
What keeps the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog up at night? It’s not only Vladimir Putin threatening to use a tactical nuke in Ukraine. Weeks...
2022 started and ended very differently for Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. Putin has gone from all-powerful to global pariah. Zelensky from untrustworthy former comedian to...
Woman, life, freedom. Those three words have filled the streets of Iran since the ongoing women-led protests against the regime, the biggest since 2009, began last...
Over the course of the weekend, there were all sorts of headlines put out that the Iranian government announced that they were abolishing the morality police,...
Winter is coming and for Europe, a bleak winter it may be. The escalating Russia/Ukraine war has united European support to Kyiv’s cause, but it’s also...
The Biden administration finally released its long-anticipated National Security Strategy, basically America’s biggest threats — foreign and domestic. The No. 1 external enemy is not Russia...
Xi Jinping just got a rare third term as the head of China’s ruling Communist Party. But having so much power comes with big tradeoffs and...
Dictatorships tend to fall the way Ernest Hemingway said people go bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. The omens can be obvious with hindsight. In 1978 Iran’s corrupt, brutal,...
US midterm elections have traditionally been a referendum on the president. But in 2022 even Joe Biden wants the vote to be all about his predecessor,...
