A Girl Vanishes in a Probing Chilean Thriller
Four years after Augusto Pinochet was voted out of office by the Chilean people in 1988, and two years after democracy was formally...
Aleshea Harris Fulfills Her Destiny as a Genre God
One of the most revealing things about any filmmaker is just how much darkness they allow inside the worlds they create. An act...
Why the Next India-Pakistan War Will Escalate
In his 2026 State of the Union address, U.S. President Donald Trump repeated a familiar refrain celebrating his role in ending the May...
Only Congress Can Fix American Trade
In February, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs. Among American commentators, the reaction was immediate and...
Trump’s China Trap | Foreign Affairs
In January, after weeks of threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to annex Canada as the “51st state,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney...
The Return of Japanese Hard Power
Japan’s long-dormant defense industry is finally waking up. Constrained by a constitution imposed by the Allied military occupation after World War II, Japan...
The Lessons of the Long Confucian Peace
For decades, scholars and politicians have marveled at the fact that democracies do not fight one another. “The absence of war between democracies...
Iran’s New Oil Weapon | Foreign Affairs
Despite a fragile cease-fire between the United States and Iran, the global economic crisis sparked by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz...









