The Premier League returns for another season of footballing glory, financial excess, and existential crisis.

A surprise meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Xi Jinping suggests the two countries are trying to fix a broken relationship.

The brutal kingdom had a very good, if not perfect, week.

In celebrating the death of ISIS's leader, Trump shared his vision of America's goal in the Middle East: loot and plunder.

The best time to get atomic weapons out was several years ago. The second best time is now.

Since Nixon, presidential pundits and sycophants have tried to rationalize executive insanity. But no one was prepared for Trump’s Syria madness.

Donald Trump, in agreeing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, seems willing to endorse countries flouting international law.

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

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

Two decades after India tested its nuclear weapons, the country still isn't in a position to do what the United States wants from it: help counter China.

One small step for Trump—and one giant blow to American diplomacy. The repercussions of reneging on the Iran deal may last for years.

"Derzhavnost": It's why focusing on Putin, or trying to punish the country, usually backfires.

To curb China, the U.S. could increase development aid to other Asian countries. Sometimes, doing good is good strategy.

No, we're not reliving the 1960s, says Harvard historian Arne Westad.

Don't congratulate the administration on avoiding Russian retaliation. The humanitarian crisis in Syria remains, and the real collision course here is between Israel and Iran.

Kurdish oil is sitting off the Texas coast right now—and a U.S. judge just ordered its seizure