President Obama’s failure to stabilize Afghanistan gives a nice boost to the America-as-diminished-world-power narrative.

The UN’s climate chief hints that Paris won’t produce a binding treaty.

In Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands, the far right has made strides.

Will Taiwan cozy up to its old colonial ruler?

Xi has sent a trusted envoy to celebrate the anniversary of North Korea’s founding. South Korea and Japan won’t be happy, but China isn’t happy with them.

In the true history of the world, stories like these matter infinitely more than most of the empty pursuit of power, reputation, and wealth that the media normally follows.

The World Bank’s special envoy for climate change came out against the creation of a climate slush fund. What that means for the Paris talks.

In geopolitics, the rise of both Canada and other Anglo-sphere countries like Australia is more than offsetting the continuing problems facing Great Britain.

The White House appears to have decided to hunker down and hope Putin’s aggression ends up backfiring.

The energiewende has found a policy sour spot, somehow boosting coal production and electricity prices simultaneously.