The Republican Trump 2016 platform forever marked the history of campaigns in the United States, and consequently in...

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Breaking the current impasse requires an interim gesture by the US which provides Iran with the incentive it needs...

A detailed briefing that gives pessimists and optimists alike a lot to think about.

Self-interest multiplied by mutual admiration made for a triumphal rally when the US president and India’s prime...

Blackstone boss Schwarzman wants Yale’s historic Commons to carry his name; and the university erases a second...

Jews’ long-standing security in the United States has relied on a hard-won consensus now being undermined by an...

Few in the west know about the war fought on their behalf in Syria and Iraq. But they may come to know the rage that...

In the 1980s Iran learned its frigates were no match for the US Navy. But its many small, nimble attack craft can...

Republican presidents always want ‘small’ nukes for use, not deterrence. What’s worrying is that US military chiefs...

Kim Jong-un has the bombs to put on it too – but lately it’s all smiles from Donald Trump. Is this a lesson for Iran?

Saudi Arabia and other US allies are blockading Qatar, saying it supports terrorism. So why was its emir guest of...

The Revolutionary Guards are “Iran’s military-industrial complex”, and Trump’s provocations only make them stronger.

North Korea is rebuilding its ability to launch missiles and the US has got a spy plane in place to watch them – and...

Arming Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Libya, and making huge fuel transfers on the high seas – it embarrasses Trump, but...

Big spending Christian right ‘legal army’, whose influence has soared in America under Trump, is now linked to...

As the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking...

Through aggressive rhetoric and miscalculations nuclear war can happen by accident. As the Trump-Kim circus...

Something is going badly wrong in elections and referenda across the world. The culprit is an age-old voting system...

The crisis in Venezuela and Jair Bolsonaro's access to power coincide with Latin America's slide towards gradual...

For growing numbers of municipalists, new politics means fundamentally reshaping the bundle of relationships that...