Commentary and Analysis

Karen DeYoung, Steve Erlanger, and Gideon Rachman join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Such accusations ignore the harm the war is doing to the US economy and the potential political peril it has created for the Biden administration, Paul Poast writes.

The US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC, is the first meeting of its kind since 2014. Africa’s shift toward China and Russia will be a subtext of the meeting.

American perceptions of whether Russia or Ukraine is winning the war are key to support for ongoing US assistance to Kyiv.

Consensus on how long to provide economic and military aid to Ukraine appears to be weakening as the war enters its tenth month.

New Council polling offers insights into where Americans stand as the conflict drags into winter.

"In the past 20 years, the global trend toward greater rights has reversed, with authoritarianism and illiberalism on the rise," Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

"Widespread skepticism of Washington has given way to the belief that US forces have a role to play on the peninsula for the foreseeable future," Karl Friedhoff writes.

"Liberal Democrats are far and away Ukraine’s strongest American supporters," Dina Smeltz and Emily Sullivan write.

Ivo Daalder argues that China’s unwillingness to stand up to Putin is part of what causes the danger of missile hits like the one in Poland this week.