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Saudi Arabia is exploiting great-power competition to obtain security commitments from the U.S. This should be rejected.

The UN statement in question is just that: a statement, with no tangible value and no legal repercussions.

In the absence of more attention to the supply chain, the U.S. is becoming even more reliant on Beijing—and ‘friendshoring’ often increases that dependence.

How authentic protest movements like the one in Iran can be hijacked by a funded opposition that builds momentum for war and military intervention.

U.S. officials are trying to preserve a truce that has reduced violence and created the possibility for a negotiated settlement to the war.

The takedown of a Russian darknet marketplace exposed cracks within the cyber-criminal underworld — and the global effort to shut down these digital black markets.

With this summer’s strike, the country’s powerful Indigenous movement united two agendas long in tension: resistance to austerity and opposition to natural resource extraction.

Tolkien fans see red over casting choices, and more hot flashes from babble-on media

Moscow - along with Beijing - is preparing for a long-term geopolitical confrontation in Africa.

The U.S. still has a chance to fix itself before 2024. But when democracies start dying—as ours already has—they usually don’t recover.