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With half of the global population having already voted or preparing to do so in 2024, the “year of elections” has had a profound impact on...
We are at a dangerous precipice in the Middle East. Richard Haass, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told me Wednesday that it...
Surpassing many people’s expectations — perhaps even his own — Shigeru Ishiba bested eight other candidates in the Liberal Democratic...
Since 2014, and especially since 2022, Russia’s economy has been subjected to severe international sanctions. Yet assessments of their impact...
After a 15-day election campaign, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has elected Shigeru Ishiba as its president. Since the ruling party holds...
Since the Taliban seized power again in Kabul in August 2021, Afghans, particularly women and girls, have been subjected to some of the world’s...
Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hits leader, spent more than a third of his life banned from Major League Baseball and the Baseball Hall of Fame....
Well, that didn’t last long. We knew it would be hard to pin down the policies of newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. In his...
In little more than a week, China's efforts to crank up its economy have achieved something important: President Xi Jinping changed the...
Among Hurricane Helene’s roster of disasters is a storm surge that deluged a retired nuclear power plant in Florida. While radioactive material...
When Russian and Chinese jets violated Japanese airspace last month, many assumed that the actions were coordinated. A pillar of the “partnership...
Scientists have pieced together enough clues to Earth’s past climate to graph the average temperature from 485 million years ago to the present —...
When Israel launched its counterattack against Hamas in October last year, United States President Joe Biden understood what was at stake....
With hindsight, Iran made a major strategic blunder back in April, when it fired some 300 missiles and drones at Israel, only to see virtually all...
In an age of great-power competition where countries like the United States, China and Russia jostle for geopolitical supremacy, middle powers from...
On Tuesday, the nation's newly minted prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, formed his first Cabinet, and like the Liberal Democratic Party leadership...
When Shigeru Ishiba became the 65th Japanese prime minister on Tuesday, it represents a remarkable break with the recent past. All of the...