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An internally displaced family sits at a makeshift shelter during a visit by World Food Program officials to assess the knock-on effects from the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East in Kahda district of Mogadishu on May 7.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
The U.S.-Iran war is making world hunger much worse
The combined scourges of undernourishment, child stunting and wasting have become worse, halting a two-decade trend of improvement.
South African jurist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay poses in Nuremberg, Germany, on Friday, soon after being awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2026
And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to the opposite of Trump
ICC jurists have now been frozen out of everything from bank accounts to VISA and Mastercard credit cards and Amazon subscriptions.
A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer fires a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile during the Operation Epic Fury attack on Iran from an unidentified location in early March.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2026
The U.S. ammo crunch is a global disaster
The missile scarcity constrains Trump’s military options and could have strategic consequences, including limiting the ability to deter China, North Korea and Russia.
Japanese police check for mock chemical agents during Pacific Shield 18, a multinational exercise focused on preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction, in Yokosuka in July 2018.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2026
The real reasons to be terrified about AI and WMD
The threat of AI and WMDs is nuanced and takes different forms for each type of weapon, with AI helping both the offense and the defense.
Then-U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (center), FBI Director Kash Patel (left) and CIA Director John Ratcliffe attend a House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington in March.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2026
If the U.S. keeps messing with this spy agency, it’ll pay a high price
Rather than weakening or abolishing the ODNI, the United States needs a stronger, professional and politically independent intelligence leadership.
Critics argue the selection of Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to lead U.S. intelligence reflects a preference for political loyalty over expertise.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2026
Pulte will drag U.S. intelligence from bad to worse
Pulte, though, appears to be worse. He seems even less qualified for the job than Gabbard (who at least had military experience).
A woman sits outside her apartment after it was destroyed in an airstrike amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran in Tehran on March 12.
COMMENTARY / World
May 5, 2026
Will the Iran war make Trump gun-shy or trigger-happy?
The sunk-cost fallacy tricks leaders into thinking that they’ve already sacrificed too much to quit.
U.S. President Donald Trump's shifting narratives and pattern of mission creep mirrors historical cases from Iraq to World War II, showing how leaders adjust justifications to fit actions rather than defining war aims.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2026
Congress must stop war by mission creep
The leader of a major power weighs an attack, and adjusts his reasons to justify the war, rather than making the war depend on the objectives.
Historians’ rankings of America’s best and worst foreign-policy decisions show the U.S. succeeded when it led cooperatively through multilateral institutions and failed when it turned inward or went rogue.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2026
The 10 best and worst U.S. foreign policy decisions
America was at its best whenever it was open to the world and engaged with it, and at its worst when it became closed.
A Ukrainian officer watches as an SS-24 nuclear missile booster is removed from its bunker at a military base in Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine in September 1998 as part of the dismantling of the country’s remaining SS-24 missiles under the START I treaty.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2026
Goodbye arms control, hello nuclear anarchy
This marks the first time since the iciest days of the Cold War when no formal arms-control regime will limit the two atomic superpowers.
Pope Leo XIV meets with Donald Trump’s top lieutenants, U.S. Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, at the Vatican in May.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 19, 2026
A pope and a president offer competing Americanisms
In time, this papal voice of humanity’s better angels will resonate ever more broadly as the jingoism of this White House becomes more shrill.
U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to give a news conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday after Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was captured and flown out of the country, having been indicted by a U.S. court.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2026
Trump is tying his legacy to whatever happens in Venezuela
The intervention probably also violates domestic U.S. law. It comes well after — if one starts the clock on Sept. 2 — when the U.S. struck the first boat in the Caribbean.
The so-called Donald Trump Corollary revives a distorted Monroe Doctrine to legitimize bullying in the Western Hemisphere, increasing instability and the risk of wider conflict.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2025
Turning the Monroe Doctrine into ‘Donroe’ is awful geopolitics
For the Trump administration, as Jay Sexton points out, trolling libs like Kerry is of course another plus for the Donroe Doctrine.
U.S. senators telling American troops they don’t have to obey illegal commands has sparked ire from President Donald Trump, underscoring the enduring principle that soldiers must follow conscience and the law above orders.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2025
The duty to disobey unlawful orders was America’s idea
Members of Congress made a video in which they remind active service members that “our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders.”
The U.S.-China economic confrontation under Donald Trump's leadership is marked by chaos, a lack of strategy and internal divisions within U.S. circles, raising critical questions about the future of global diplomacy and trade.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2025
The U.S. has no China policy, no strategy and no clue
But tariffs were just the overture, as Washington and Beijing, tit-for-tat, started going after each other in every other way.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks to supporters while holding up electoral records during a rally in Caracas in August 2024. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday she was the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 12, 2025
Machado receives the Nobel Peace Prize as Trump’s attempts to secure award fall short
Machado, as the committee put it, is known for her tireless work promoting democracy for Venezuelans and her struggle against dictatorship.
Military and national security leaders across major Western countries and the world show dangerous overconfidence and cognitive biases, risking global conflict.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 9, 2025
Global war and the cognitive traps leaders don’t see
Even a cursory scan of today’s major military powers suggests that their leaders and policy elites are dangerously overconfident.
The United Nations Security Council holds a ministerial meeting on Ukraine during the U.N. General Assembly at the body's headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2025
The U.S. assault on the U.N. rests on a tragic misunderstanding
The Trump administration views the U.N. as a useless, woke cesspool. Instead, it reflects the world as it is, assembled to “save humanity from hell.”
A group of U.S. foreign policy veterans has warned Congress that Donald Trump’s erratic and hostile approach to allies is eroding America’s global credibility.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2025
America’s friends will never trust the U.S. again
A group of U.S. foreign policy veterans has warned Congress that Donald Trump’s erratic and hostile approach to allies is eroding America’s global credibility.
Experts warn the world is drifting dangerously close to disaster as North Korea, Russia and China expand their nuclear arsenals and old arms-control frameworks crumble.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2025
Even nuclear experts are at a loss right now
Who would have thought strategists would be almost nostalgic for the Cold War?
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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