Henry Kissinger at 100: A contradictory legacy of peace and terror
Once the most admired man in America, the former secretary of state was a master of great-power diplomacy. Yet he was willfully clueless about much of the world.
Will lithium power prosperity in South America?
Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina are tightening their control of an element at the heart of green technology.
World War II analogies are about as useful today as carrier pigeons
Comparisons to that war usually don’t hold up, because most conflicts don’t start or end like it did.
Republicans would be wise to drop the talk of bombing Mexico
Threats of military action against drug cartels come across very differently south of the border.
The incalculable moral cost of proxy wars
Appealing because they can be fought on the cheap. Appalling because they are so very hard to end.
