Tom McTague
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Peter Nicholls / Reuters The Spiritual Disunity of the West
NATO is the physical embodiment of the idea of shared Western values. But a meeting in London highlighted how far apart its members now stand.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Man Who Figured Out Trump
Jens Stoltenberg will soon be NATO’s longest-serving leader in a generation. How has he done it?
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Illustration by Ricardo Santos* Britain’s Secret War With Russia
The poisoning of a double agent sparked an intelligence and PR battle between London and Moscow, the details of which are only now emerging.
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Alberto Pezzali / AP Boris Johnson’s Leadership Is Put to the Test
A terror attack in London carries parallels to one in 2017, and once again challenges a prime minister.
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Handout / Reuters Boris Johnson Bets on a Strategy Theresa May Ignored
The prime minister and the opposition took entirely different lessons from Britain’s 2017 election. Both are testing their conclusions to destruction.
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Handout / Reuters Britain’s Meh Election
An enormous amount is at stake, yet few people appear to be enthusiastic about the upcoming vote.
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Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP Boris Johnson Is Not Britain’s Donald Trump. Jeremy Corbyn Is.
Corbyn and Trump are both populists and in a battle with ‘the swamp.’ Brexit aside, Johnson is not.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Coming Brexit Farce
While Brexiteers believe the threat of “no deal” increases British leverage, the EU calculates that it increases its leverage and is therefore happy to play along. The result: an inevitable crisis.
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Andrew Parsons / Pool via Reuters How Europe Will Take On Britain After Brexit
Once Brexit eventually happens, the two will have to compete. It’s only natural.
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Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Boris Johnson Thinks He’s in Control
The British prime minister’s efforts to reach a breakthrough on Brexit speak to the importance of personality when it comes to politics and foreign policy.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters This Is Just the Beginning of Brexit
Even if Britain leaves the EU at the end of the month, the issue will not go away—much still needs to be resolved.
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Pool / Reuters The Improbable Triumph of Boris Johnson
Two lessons emerged from the latest Brexit deal: The British prime minister garnered a concession his predecessor couldn’t, but the EU has still held the line.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Is Boris Johnson Actually Winning?
At least politically, if not diplomatically, the British prime minister appears to be making some progress.
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Lorraine O'Sullivan / Reuters The Never-Ending Brexit Crisis
Many in Britain are hoping an election will break a political deadlock, but a vote carries risks that no one is openly acknowledging.
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Phil Noble / Reuters The Clinton-Blair Playbook Has Been Junked
Britain’s leaders used to hate their parties. Now they amplify, rather than challenge, their base.
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Henry Nicholls Brexit Imperils the World’s Oldest Political Party
Britain’s Conservative Party has endured for hundreds of years, but in trying to pull the country out of the EU, it will have to adapt to survive.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Ukraine Fears Becoming a Partisan American Political Issue
Foreign policy in the United States was historically seen as having a bipartisan consensus on many of the most significant issues.
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Greg Fiume / Getty America’s Wildly Successful Socialist Experiment
In sports, and in life, Europe and the United States see their societies differently—just not in the ways you might expect.
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Phil Noble / Reuters Brexit and Britain’s Northern Ireland Déjà Vu
The compromises made to reach the Good Friday Agreement offer hope Britain will solve its Brexit riddle. Yet a failed effort a quarter century prior is a cautionary tale.
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Handout / Reuters Britain’s Political Chaos Shows Everything Is Okay
The country’s unwritten constitution is being stretched to its limit, but is still in place—for now.
