Commentary

U.S. president is pressing countries to take in Palestinians by threatening to cut aid, but it’s too dangerous for Arab leaders to accept that blackmail.

The U.S. president sees tariffs not just as a way to reverse trade deficits, but also as a means of reducing domestic income tax. He may find neither are likely to work according to plan.

Europe’s leaders had plenty of warnings about what the U.S. president’s second term might mean, but amid much eye-rolling, hand-wringing and wishful thinking, they failed to agree on a plan.

Washington and Kyiv are holding fast to separate assumptions about the prospect of ending the ongoing war — but both could be wrong.

The Trump camp is doing its victory lap. But when the dust settles, political realities could cause problems for such a broad church.

The U.S. president-elect claiming credit for the Israel-Hamas agreement has infuriated Joe Biden and his aides, but few in the region doubt it’s true.

Syria is stepping into a new reality — but its political contours have yet to take shape.

There’s a battle among the president-elect’s loyalists over who among Europe’s right-wing populists should be trusted as allies.

Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a’s hands-off diplomacy is setting off alarm bells — as it should.