The erosion of those countries’ industrial capacity ultimately weakens their ability to compete with and resist China economically, diplomatically, and militarily. And the United States cannot win a ...

Singularly focused on the need to prevent another 9/11, Bush’s modest approach to world affairs morphed into the so-called global war on terror that became the primary paradigm for U.S. foreign policy ...

Bilahari Kausikan, a distinguished Singaporean diplomat, challenges the idea that the twenty-first century will be Asia’s.

The Chinese call these abandoned structures lanwei lou, a phrase that literally means “rotten-tail buildings,” signifying a project gone awry, a plan in suspension. The inhabitants of rotten-tail ...

Over the past decade, there has been a growing consensus that democracies around the world are facing a crisis from within. According to a 2025 Pew survey, nearly 60 percent of respondents in 23 ...

Glaude, Fisher, and Luo convincingly show that virulent white racism has been a constant and often ignored through line in American history.

Travelers returning from China often report having seen the future. The country’s advances in frontier commercial technologies are visible in the robots that make and serve food in restaurants; the ...

A quarter century before 9/11, an upsurge in global terrorism prompted the historian David Fromkin to examine its purpose and method. Terrorism was a strategy of the weak, Fromkin wrote in these pages ...

Africa’s fertility rate is still roughly double that of Latin America and South Asia, and the median age in sub-Saharan Africa today is 19.5 years, compared with 29.0 in South Asia, 34.0 in South ...

There is more of a global consensus about the nature of the challenge than ever before, but it has had little effect on Chinese policy. Now, the problem is morphing into a qualitatively new and more ...

Eighteen months later, however, the United States is bogged down in a new war in the Middle East. Although the U.S. military has enjoyed tactical successes, Washington has not achieved any kind of ...

The quest for machine superintelligence is not merely a gold rush, motivated by money. In the minds of many of its leaders, the arrival of a new form of cognition has a tingling, existential feel ...