Dan Perry

The betrayal of Ukraine by President Donald Trump was hardly unexpected, but its execution—brazen, humiliating, and incredibly public—has left Europeans in shock.

President Donald Trump's gangster-like shakedown of Ukraine for its rare earth minerals is a breathtaking deviation from decades of American global leadership.

President Donald Trump is taking a significant gamble with his approach to Ukraine.

The catastrophe in the Middle East since Oct. 7, 2023, a has reignited discussions about a Palestinian state.

The Middle East is the exception to world diplomacy: it's practically begging for a bashing of heads. Trump seems just the man, and it begins Tuesday.

Logic would suggest the MAGA universe should be stampeding to Romania to rally behind Georgescu, as they have done for the similarly liberal-baiting Prime Minister Viktor Orban in neighboring Hungary.

The reality is that many of the elections last year were fake and that the world runneth over with dictators, authoritarians and their wannabes.

What history will record of Jimmy Carter was that he was the first U.S. president to broker peace between Israel and an Arab country.

Thirty-five years ago, as communism was collapsing, U.S. scholar Francis Fukuyama famously proclaimed the "end of history."

The unseemly snark over the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson needs discussing.

On Sunday morning, a lightning offensive by Syrian rebels ended with the dramatic fall of Damascus, marking the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime after 13 years of devastating civil war.

For nearly two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin has used election interference as a weapon to reshape the global order in his favor.

A strange thing happened to Romania on its way to another humdrum post-communist election: A sudden outbreak of the right-wing populist virus, driven by a suspicious TikTok mega-mobilization.

The International Criminal Court has been plunged into a crisis of its own making: Its indictment last week of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Israel is one thing and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu another: A shameless schemer who's messing with everyone.

Few countries are more worried about President-Elect Donald Trump than Ukraine, whose determined stand against Russian aggression would collapse without outside aid.

The world was hugely interested in the U.S. presidential election—and everywhere people are wondering what the return of Donald Trump will mean in geopolitics.

Many Americans don't want to hear it, but the Electoral College is a uniquely damaging system that wildly distorts the will of the voter, yields crazy outcomes and suppresses participation.

Israel's successes in recent weeks open the door to a genuinely game-changing Pax Americana in the Middle East. That is if the United States is ready to put politics aside.

The election is three weeks away, but absentee balloting has begun, the noise is deafening and confusion considerable.

For a time, Lebanon made its case for being the coolest Arab country—a place of nightlife, energy, and cuisine that drew European tourists to the beaches and boulevards of the "Paris of the Middle East."

A year ago, there was reason to believe that President Joe Biden was on the cusp of a major geopolitical victory, coaxing Israel and Saudi Arabia into a peace arrangement.

Much of the media coverage and official reaction about Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has fixated reflexively on fears of "escalation."

When you're in the presence of a great orator, you just know. It's an unmistakable energy that sweeps across a room—a sense that the speaker not only controls the message but owns the moment.

In historical dramas, authenticity has always battled with artistic license, creating a certain tension between truth and art.

This point in campaigns is about maximizing support, not holding policy discussions.

As Democrats gather in Chicago, the most remarkable of the storylines is going strangely unremarked: America in 2024 might finally elect a woman president.

Seventy-one years ago, a pair of energetic brothers carried out a plan to overthrow a pesky Middle Eastern government, setting in motion a chain of events that has the region on the cusp of all-out war.

Ten months after the Oct. 7 massacre which sparked a devastating war in Gaza, the Middle East is teetering on the edge of an even wider conflict.