With elections upcoming, the Conservatives had started measuring the drapes, but didn’t anticipate America’s new president shattering their country’s politics.
America and the World
Elon Musk’s China Threat
The shadow president has deep ties to the Chinese dictatorship, and it shows. The risk to national security is unimaginable.
Canada Isn’t Going MAGA
Justin Trudeau got himself into a fine mess, but the incoming Trump administration may be overestimating how pliable the next prime minister might be.
The CIA Director Received Cooler Gifts Than the Secretary of State. Here’s Why.
Bill Burns was America’s best diplomatic asset in the Biden years. He was also the nation’s spy chief.
Think Biden’s Unpopular? Check Out His Fellow Leaders.
If floundering leaders and ineffectual democracies are the new norm, we’re in a very dangerous time.
Shared Zones of Interest
Harris and Trump’s foreign-policy aims in the Middle East proceed from the same incentive structures and presuppositions about U.S. supremacy.
Everything You Wanted to Know About World War III but Were Afraid to Ask
For generations, we thought fear of nuclear holocaust would prevent world war. Is that faith obsolete?
A British Preview of Kamala’s Challenges
Britain’s new Labour prime minister Keir Starmer has a huge majority, but defeatist constraints of his own making.
Bibi’s Mideast Solution: Unending War
It puts Israel in greater peril, but it may just keep him in power—and out of the clink.

