The UAE and Saudi Arabia are trying to outmaneuver Iran politically, but helping to rebuild Iraq might be a path to real influence.

How a transport fuel became one of the biggest issues in this year’s German election:

Why Obamacare—and the efforts to repeal it or fix it—are largely irrelevant to the real problems facing the U.S. health care system.

Like it or not, the Iran nuclear deal weds us to trying to integrate the country into the the international financial system.

They hurt the Kremlin a lot more than most Western analysts appreciate.

Petrostates are unhappy, which may be all you need to know.

The story is less who made the sale, but that the sale happened at all.

Great countries can fall apart. I don’t know what that would look like for America. And I don’t know how to stop it.

Migrant flows from Libya to Italy are down thanks to the Italian navy, but are offset by increases from Morocco to Spain.

Amidst a bitter internal fight, Germany’s AfD may be staggering, but it isn’t down for the count.