World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

The United States has long benefited from an enormous brain gain, with the most talented scientists and engineers around the ...

ZAINAB USMAN is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in ...

In December, a consortium of rebel factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham unexpectedly toppled the dictator Bashar al ...

The perception that China likely does not face an existential threat from the United States has had a stabilizing effect on ...

The view that the Chinese leadership was desperate to negotiate a trade deal, to avoid economic pain that could destabilize ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and the author of The Abandonment of the West: ...