Foreign Policy

Like with the oil sector in the 2000s, Moscow wants to nationalize the tech sector. But it is finding that its old strategies don’t work.

2019 could end with a deceleration in overall carbon emissions.

“Why would you want to put the fox in charge of the henhouse?” says one American expert.

New rules force companies to give up their privacy and steer clear of social networks and Wi-Fi if they want their internet back. Regular citizens still have no access, 113 days into a digital blackout.

Spencer’s ouster followed months of tensions with the White House over cost overruns and other issues.

Donors across the United States have provided more than a quarter of a million dollars so far.

Here’s how the country can avoid the resource curse.

Ten takeaways from the biggest civil-military crisis (so far) of the Trump administration.

A Federal court ruling means former White House counsel Donald McGahn could testify, and so might John Bolton

The authorities were so confident of elections going their way that state media filed copy in advance.

A new trove of State Department emails sheds fresh light on events surrounding the impeachment inquiry.

Hong Kongers turned out in droves to defeat pro-Beijing candidates.

American millennials may resent their baby boomer elders for ruining the world, but generational politics in mainland China and Hong Kong are more complicated.

Cool heads are needed in both Beijing and Washington.

Long deemed strategically irrelevant by the United States, the EU is poised to become a major geopolitical power. Washington should take note.

A new book looks at why the U.S. military keeps trapping itself in endless conflicts.

Almost four decades after the first U.S.-Pakistani mission in Afghanistan, Islamabad risks getting caught in the crosshairs of great-power politics again. Only deft diplomacy will save it.

The decline in U.S. soft power didn’t start with Trump, but he accelerated it this week with his racist tweets.

It won’t bring the regime in from the cold, but it will save lives.

Plus: Hong Kong’s justice minister in China, Congo’s Ebola crisis, and the other stories we’re following today.