This week, Puerto Rico copes with devastating damage from Hurricane Maria; Iraqi Kurds vote overwhelmingly in favor of independence; Angela Merkel is reelected as German chancellor and Alternative für Deutschland enters parliament; and more.
This week, Kenya’s supreme court annuls the results of the country’s recent presidential election; tensions escalate between Spanish police and Catalan separatists less than two weeks before a controversial Catalan independence referendum; Trump threatens North Korea at the UN General Assembly; and more.
We need populism that elevates middle-class interests, not the authoritarian kind we see now, Ehsan Zaffar writes ahead of Members Weekend.
The United States and its allies must project forceful arguments on democracy's appeal, and citizens must be wary of propaganda efforts, write Agnia Grigas and Seth Freeman.
U.S. diplomacy cannot afford the massive budget cuts that the Trump administration is proposing, Elisa Massimino writes ahead of Members Weekend.
If the parties at the COP22 climate summit continue toward meaningful action in the spirit of the Paris Agreement, Jesse Medlong writes this could be the moment we save our planet for future generations.
China's ratcheting up of repressive measures has not stopped some Hong Kong students from continuing to push back against efforts to make their city as tightly controlled as those on the mainland, Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes ahead of Members Weekend.
Public diplomacy is essential to U.S. national security and should be vigorously championed by the president and Congress, write Mel Levine, Rockwell Schnabel, and Jay Wang.
A discussion on Europe's future in a time of unprecedented crisis, featuring Ambassador John B. Emerson and Ms. Kimberly Marteau Emerson.
As the world grapples with the nuclear threat emanating from North Korea, it is not only bombs that should be of concern, writes Bennett Ramberg. It is also the dozens of nuclear power plants in Japan and South Korea that are vulnerable to attack should war break out in the region.
