For the humanitarian community, 2025 has been the worst year on record. But there are also trends worth celebrating, and watching.
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Our columnists weigh in on how the Trump administration’s foreign policy of upheaval will continue to reverberate across the globe.
China has been throwing its economic weight around with trading partners, but it also faces weak economic fundamentals at home.
Despite the economic and geopolitical challenges it faced in 2025, Europe appears poised to reject a deal that would help it compete globally.
Aid cuts by wealthy nations around the world have caused a decline in health funding. More children are dying as a result.
For Europe, the danger from the east is plainly a military one, while the danger from the other side of the Atlantic is political.
Bulgarians long tolerated elites stealing from a distant EU bureaucracy. Stealing from Bulgarian taxpayers is another matter.
Outrage over the U.S. military targeting survivors of a boat strike in the Caribbean risks overshadowing the wider issue of civilian harm.
If Trump wanted to demonstrate resolve against authoritarianism and Chinese influence in Latin America, Nicaragua should be the textbook case.
Trump is not the first U.S. president to allow racist views to influence his foreign policy decisions.
Trump’s National Security Strategy offers a foreign policy guidebook for those seeking to extend Trumpism beyond his presidency.
The National Security Strategy makes it clear that the Trump administration no longer views Europe’s current leaders as partners.
Despite calling for “win-win” ties with Beijing, Trump’s National Security Strategy lays out a clear effort to constrain China.
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy offers no guidance for the immediate challenges it faces in Latin America.
Trump’s coercive diplomacy is consistent with a long-standing focus of U.S. foreign policy: control of the Western Hemisphere.
Germany’s turnaround on defense spending is a step forward for European security. But it also raises some troubling questions.
The U.S. midterm congressional elections are just one contest in 2026 that could have a significant impact on global affairs.