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El Salvador’s president is cracking down on all dissent while he’s popular, in order to hold onto power when he no longer is.
Trump hoped his tariffs on Brazil would help Bolsonaro avoid accountability for his illegal attempt to stay in power in 2023.
The volatility in U.S. trade policy has not yet wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, but it is already being felt among U.S. trading partners across the world.
Trump’s tariff letters appear to make the process of diplomacy public and therefore transparent. But there are other reasons ...
West African governments are scrambling to make the most of a new gold rush. But the boom is also exacerbating existing ...
Whether Trump’s end goal is to definitively decouple the U.S. and Chinese economies or find some modus vivendi for the two ...
The U.S. attack on Fordow did real damage to the site. But it also set back the IAEA’s oversight of Iran’s nuclear program.
Mark Hibbs is a nonresident senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in ...
A new U.S. arms deal suggests Trump has genuinely shifted his position toward Ukraine. The question is: Why now?
Lingering disputes had already created a dilemma for the EU over how to handle trade with China. Trump’s return has only made ...
Fueled by rentier capitalism, the EU is facing a rapidly growing wealth divide. Familiar remedies are unlikely to solve the ...