Brett Schaefer, RCW
For more than two decades, supporters of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have urged the U.S. to ratify the Rome Statute and join the court. But multiple U.S....
Ashley Rindsberg, UnHerd
The deaths of two of Iran's most powerful hardline politicians — President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian — in a helicopter crash...
Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi perished in what Iranian media initially labeled a "hard landing." That Iranians celebrated with fireworks in Raisi's hometown...
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, RS
David Goldman, Asia Times
Contrary to a meme that's popular among Western policy analysts, there is no Chinese "export surge." China's exports to developed markets have stagnated for years,...
Nick Danby, War on the Rocks
If war breaks out in the Indo-Pacific, it will not be over Taiwan but over the atolls and shoals dotting the South China Sea. At least, that's the argument the...
Arash Azizi, The Atlantic
Accidents happen everywhere, but not all accidents are equal. Many hours after initial news broke about an "incident" involving a helicopter carrying Iranian...
Dana Stroul, Foreign Affairs
In early April, in the seventh month of Israel's campaign to dismantle Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) withdrew the majority of its ground troops from the...
Wang, & Ramzy, WSJ
Taiwan's new president said the island democracy would serve as a "helmsman of global peace" under his watch in a carefully calibrated inauguration speech reflecting his...
Giorgio Cafiero, RS
Boaz Golany, Jerusalem Post
Let's also hope that those who keep on criticizing Israel for supposedly violating the IHL will gather the courage to...
James Pinkerton, American Conservative
The pier the U.S. built on the Gaza coastline has received its first cargo shipments. But it might not just be receiving imports. It might...
Peter Franklin, UnHerd
Of the four parties which have just agreed to form a new government in the Netherlands, three can be described as populist — not least the Party for Freedom of...
Greg Ip, WS Journal