By Joshua Franklin in New York, Financial Times, May. 20, 2026
Putin Seeks a Boost From Xi in Beijing as War Effort Falters
By Austin Ramzy and Matthew Luxmoore, The Wall Street Journal, May. 20, 2026
Taiwan Presses Its Case After Trump Puts Arms Sales in Question
By Joyu Wang and Chun Han Wong, The Wall Street Journal, May. 20, 2026
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By Dan Clark in London and Anna Nicolaou in New York, Financial Times, May. 20, 2026
Nato allies press US for clarity on troop cuts in Europe
By Ben Hall in Tallinn and Henry Foy in Brussels, Financial Times, May. 20, 2026
How Iran Got to the Nuclear Threshold on the Watch of Three U.S. Presidents
By Laurence Norman and Michael R. Gordon, The Wall Street Journal, May. 20, 2026
America’s Toxic Divide Reaches the Jury Room
By Corinne Ramey, The Wall Street Journal, May. 20, 2026
As a Weakened Putin Follows Trump to Beijing, Iran War Offers an Opening
By Ivan Nechepurenko and David Pierson, The New York Times, May. 19, 2026
Middle East on Edge After Trump Says He Delayed Attack on Iran
By Euan Ward and Elian Peltier, The New York Times, May. 19, 2026
America’s ailing one-trick pony
By Edward Luce, Financial Times, May. 19, 2026
UK -- Why politicians struggle to read the public on immigration
By Sarah O’Connor, Financial Times, May. 19, 2026
UK -- Labour’s lack of intellectual rigour has returned to bite it
By Stephen Bush, Financial Times, May. 19, 2026
The US and China crave hegemony without responsibility
By Elizabeth Economy, Hargrove Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Program on the US, China, and the World at the Hoover Institution, Financial Times, May. 19, 2026
Israel seizes 1,000 sq km under Benjamin Netanyahu’s war strategy
By FT, Financial Times, May. 19, 2026
JD Vance stakes his claim
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Russia’s War Is Going Badly—on the Ground and in the Air
By Marcus Walker and Anastasiia Malenko, The Wall Street Journal, May. 19, 2026
China Is Throwing Christians in Jail, but This Pastor Refuses to Back Down
By Brian Spegele, The Wall Street Journal, May. 19, 2026
Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that Putin might ‘regret’ invasion of Ukraine
By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington, Financial Times, May. 19, 2026
Trump Says Planned Iran Attack On Hold After Gulf Leaders’ Request
By Vera Bergengruen, Alexander Ward and Summer Said, The Wall Street Journal, May. 19, 2026
Trump Bugs Out on Poland
By WSJ Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, May. 18, 2026
Ukraine Offers a Glimpse at the Future of War
By Walter Russell Mead, The Wall Street Journal, May. 18, 2026