HENRY A. KISSINGER was U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 and U.S. National Security Adviser from 1969 to 1975. From 1982 until his death, in 2023, he ran the consulting firm Kissinger ...

Ukraine matters to U.S. security for four blunt reasons. Putin’s war is a direct threat to European security, a clear ...

Israel’s tactical accomplishments in Lebanon have been widely acknowledged. Yet many observers have been puzzled by the ...

Some strategists argue for ruthless prioritization, focusing on the members of the axis that represent the greatest threats.

LINDA ROBINSON is Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and is writing a book about ...

China’s most pressing short-term economic challenge is weak domestic demand, driven by a lack of consumer confidence. When Chinese consumers refuse to spend, they hoard cash, creating a savings glut ...

ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER is CEO of New America and former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. Clinton’s ...

A civil war between 1976 and 1989 claimed nearly 100,000 Lebanese lives and cemented Hezbollah’s dominance within the state, ...

BONNIE S. GLASER is Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. Previously, she was Director of the ...

BRAD SETSER is Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as a Senior Adviser to the U.S. Trade Representative from 2021 to 2022 and was Deputy Assistant Treasury ...