Commentary and Analysis

To celebrate Women’s History Month, Valerie Hudson and Zoe Marks explain how women's rights shape national security and democracy.

While Americans broadly support upper age limits for federal elected officials, age is not their top consideration when choosing a candidate.

Bruce Jentleson offers his take on how the war could play out in the 2024 presidential campaign.

Police, prosecutors, money-laundering experts, and others convened in Brazil to tackle drug and environmental crimes that are growing in scale across the Amazon.

"The UN’s performance leaves much to be desired, but it has made substantial contributions to world order," says Thomas Weiss.

To be suspicious of Iraq was part of the American zeitgeist long before 2003, survey data show.

"The idea of bargaining with Putin was already highly controversial, but now it is virtually impossible," Paul Poast writes.

Susan Glasser, Gideon Rachman, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

By shining a light on the crimes Putin has unleashed on Ukraine, we are one step closer to a just world where accountability triumphs.

How have online platforms, and lax US regulation, facilitated the flow of data from the US to China – and what does this mean for the geopolitical contest between these superpowers?