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
The real prize in Ukraine is the end of American influence in Europe.
Boris Johnson’s unseriousness may have finally caught up to him.
All is not lost; the future is not set.
Boris Johnson, Britain’s “minister of chaos,” may be forced from office for—what else?—partying on the job.
A road trip through the ancient past and shaky future of the (dis)United Kingdom
Two years after his historic general-election win, the most radical British prime minister since Margaret Thatcher is scandal-plagued, unpopular, and adrift.
A worsening crisis in Northern Ireland carries far greater costs than simply domestic political fallout.
The American president seems to want to make decisions in the U.S.’s selfish strategic interest, but without the consequences that come with doing so.
The sale of Newcastle United to Saudi Arabia is emblematic of something far more fundamental and depressing about the state of Britain.
And if he is, why don’t his supporters seem to care?