Britain has taken back control but has yet to exercise much of it.
An ex-Soviet state’s national myths—as well as the forces of nationalism, economics, culture, and religion—all pull it away from Moscow. Can Russia really compete?
The prime minister’s political life once appeared to be a sweeping epic. Despite surviving a no-confidence motion, it risks being more of a tragic novella.
NATO’s efforts to help Ukraine are not simply about military strength but about character, the alliance’s leader indicated.
Globalization, commercialization, and competition killed the romance of soccer—creating the best competition in the world in the process.
Brexit created a problem that cannot be solved, only managed. Both Britain and the European Union are responsible for what happens now.
Britain’s foreign secretary says in an interview that she wants to expand NATO’s remit, and strengthen the G7.
The knottiness of Northern Ireland is by design. Remaining stuck is the only way the place works.
Part of the problem with assessing contemporary leaders is the tendency to compare them not with real-life predecessors but with simplified myths.
The French president may well win reelection, but the forces propelling the far right are nevertheless strengthening.
The political reality is that a crisis caused by someone else in a faraway country may have saved Britain’s prime minister from a crisis caused by himself at home.
The principal strategic threat to the Western world has shifted, creating a whole new set of problems.
The U.S. and Europe tout a revitalized alliance, but the president’s visit to Brussels masks deeper disagreements.
The question for world leaders is how to ensure the Russian president is defeated while nevertheless providing him with a route out of the crisis.
Perhaps the Ukraine crisis has saved the West from its pettiness and division. But the bigger picture is far more depressing.
The Ukrainian leader’s refusal to back down is as inspiring as it is illuminating.
The old ways of dealing with Russia no longer apply.
The Western world will have to prove that it has not become all of the things Vladimir Putin has long believed it to be.
The Ukraine crisis has revealed that the U.S. can’t shed its “big brother” image on the world stage.
Why the tension in Ukraine may feel deceptively regressive