A historian explains the risks of increased spending and why the benchmark—2 percent of GDP—is flawed.

Can exhuming Francisco Franco make a Spanish Civil War monument less fascist?

For once, the soccer squad is packed with coolheaded, collaborative stalwarts. Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet, on the other hand, is full of grandstanding loudmouths.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador won in a landslide on Sunday. At the heart of his platform: forgiveness for drug offenses and a national reconciliation effort. Can it work?

They're called chaebol. They could expand from South Korea, becoming much more powerful.

A case study from Europe, with lessons for the United States.

It took a prince to end Saudi Arabia's ban on female drivers. Monarch-led feminism hasn't worked in the past. But this time might be different.

Anxiety about China surpassing the United States is old news. The numbers are complicated—but actively undermining the postwar order isn't helping.

In an election that will give its winner unprecedented powers, Turkey's formerly weak opposition has banded together, using the authoritarian president's own tools against him.

To understand the Iván Duque Márquez victory this weekend, you need to understand the man behind him: former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez.

What denying asylum to victims of domestic abuse means, in real life

China's farmers see the trade war as an act of American aggression.

No, really: Does anyone know what the agreement Trump just signed in Singapore is supposed to mean?

The president's meeting with Kim Jong Un could go more like Eisenhower with Khrushchev—which wouldn't be good.

As Donald Trump prepares for his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his former ambassadorial nominee has some advice.

Russia's new stadium in Kaliningrad sends a message, backed up by war games.

The economic impact will probably be minimal, says Peter Chase. But boy do they throw a wrench into existing trade treaties.

As Donald Trump plays chicken with North Korea, it's worth remembering that this is also a business. Some profit; others suffer.

In the ongoing headscarf fracas, many hardliners are in fact leftists.