Diplomacy & Crisis News

A recent peace deal could bring critical humanitarian relief after nearly two years of war.

The West will only restore its stability when civil servants are again devoted to the public rather than themselves.

A street vendor’s plight highlights violations that Washington would prefer to ignore.

Soviet authorities built the transit system to withstand a potential NATO attack. Now, stations are shielding Ukrainians from Russian missiles.

William MacAskill’s “What We Owe the Future” was endorsed by Elon Musk and has fueled a movement, but is it all that revolutionary, really?

Gutting the workforce will make it harder to protect dissidents and police misinformation.

Africa needs to reduce emissions and protect food security. Villainizing livestock will lead to neither.

Sam Bankman-Fried sold himself as a savior—but was sitting on a hollow company.

Ukraine needs heaters as much as HIMARS.

How Mia Mottley’s climate finance plan went from symbol of moral outrage to serious possibility at the IMF.

A Republican-led House could mean a more hawkish stance on China and less aid for Ukraine—or more of the same.

The U.S. president embarks on a weeklong trip on the heels of the midterm elections, aiming to project stability and strength.

As Trumpism deflates, internationalist Republicans will press the Biden administration on China, defense, and trade.

Led by Pakistan, climate-vulnerable countries seek aid for adaptation.

Unwise interventions are pushing ethnic partition.

Washington and Moscow look set to keep New START alive with working-level talks, despite historic tensions.

House Republicans are already planning a batch of investigations.

With Lula’s victory in Brazil, the Western Hemisphere is now dominated by left-of-center governments.

A provincial default has destroyed local government credibility.

The Eritrean president has his own interests in Tigray, and they could undermine Ethiopia’s truce with the TPLF.