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U.S. President Donald Trump (right) meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a bilateral meeting in the White House Oval Office in Washington on Nov. 18, 2025.

Saudi Arabia Bribed the Wrong People Riyadh’s bet on Trumpism has failed.

A portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli.

What Machiavelli Would Say About Trump The U.S. president offers a guide on how to be a very bad prince.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are shown in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Sept. 24.

What Xi Actually Thinks of Trump China’s president has likely concluded that the U.S. under Trump has lost its way.

Big Tech Is Destroying Democracy. Here’s How to Fight Back. A conversation with Nobel laureate Maria Ressa.

Firefighters work to put out flames following Russian drone strikes on central Kyiv on Sept. 28.

Why Nobody Can End the War in Ukraine It’s in everyone’s interest to stop the fighting. That’s still not enough.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz addresses journalists at the Chancellery in Berlin on July 21, 2025.

Germany Is Officially Adrift The German chancellor’s power is ebbing at home—and the consequences will be global.

Francis Fukuyama photographed in Paris in June 2015.

The Twilight of the Francis Fukuyama Era The famous thinker’s new memoir reveals a fateful political and intellectual blind spot.