In early 2024, the Islamic Republic of Iran was riding high. It was the dominant external actor in four Middle Eastern states: Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Its missiles and armed proxies menaced ...

William Liu is grateful that he finished high school when he did. If the latest AI tools had been around then, he told me, he might have been tempted to use them to do his homework. Liu, now a ...

For now, Washington seems to care far more about the fortunes of Venezuela’s economy, notably its oil industry, than those of its democracy. Yet those priorities have placed Venezuela in a paradoxical ...