Cuba tried to save its baseball team. Its efforts had unintended consequences.
An attempt to get Major League Baseball players on the Cuban national team inadvertently created a powerful symbol for Cubans everywhere.
By Abraham Jiménez EnoaNetanyahu’s unforced error could come with heavy costs
The Israeli political crisis should ease now. But what damage has it done to the country's security interests?
By David IgnatiusYes, TikTok is a threat to America. But so are U.S. social media companies.
TikTok isn’t the only popular social media platform beholden to China.
By Max BootUkraine smolders as Europe comes slowly awake
A pair of news reports illustrates Europe's too-gradual response to the biggest war on the continent in seven decades.
By the Editorial BoardThe data on covid’s origins from the Wuhan market must be made public
The world's scientists need to scrutinize genetic sequences from the Huanan Seafood Market.
By Amy MaxmenEuropean elites won’t be able to ride out this populist storm
This will take more than patience; it will take change.
By Henry OlsenIn Afghanistan, women and girls are being erased
One year after the Taliban started closing women's and girls' schools, the terrible toll is only growing. Don't look away.
By Shabana Basij-RasikhIsrael’s president proposes a dangerous compromise to end a crisis
Herzog's plan cedes far too much ground to Netanyahu’s plans and would weaken Israel's already fragile democracy.
By Gershom GorenbergMacron has put French democracy on the line, more than pension plans
The French president's approach to pension reform is an insult to good-faith democratic procedure.
By Rokhaya DialloThe despots of Russia and Belarus cannot jail freedom
No amount of police searches and arrests can bottle up an idea — including the notion that people want to live free of the despots ruling Russia and Belarus.
By the Editorial BoardHow to make the sanctions on Russia really hurt
Sanctions have squeezed the economy undergirding Putin's war in Ukraine. The West can tighten the screws more, especially on Moscow's energy revenue.
By the Editorial BoardThe pre-Pearl Harbor GOP is back
Republicans have been drawn to a quasi-isolationist, Asia First foreign policy.
By Max BootThe moral and legal case for sending Russia’s frozen $300 billion to Ukraine
There would be an elegant justice in transferring Moscow's frozen central bank assets to the nation ravaged by Vladimir Putin's invasion.
By Lawrence H. Summers, Philip D. Zelikow and Robert B. ZoellickIn Hong Kong, face masks are finally optional — but distrust remains
There are fledgling signs of pre-covid normality, both good and bad.
By Keith B. RichburgU.S. companies must stop enabling mass DNA collection in Tibet
Chinese authorities’ collection of DNA is just one piece of one of the most comprehensive and intrusive surveillance and monitoring systems on Earth.
By Josh RoginSome of my GOP colleagues have lost their moral compass on Ukraine
Simply opposing aid to Ukraine because President Biden supports it is not a viable foreign policy.
By Chris SununuThe Iraq War helped destroy what it meant to be an Iraqi
Despite Saddam Hussein's repressions, a fragile sense of Iraqi identity persisted. America's mistakes following the invasion blew up what remained.
By Feurat Alani20 years later, despite America’s carelessness, Iraq is recovering
Disastrous U.S. blunders in Iraq made what would have been a difficult period after Saddam Hussein much worse. Nevertheless, Iraq is slowly getting better.
By Rajiv ChandrasekaranHow China is heralding the beginnings of a multipolar Middle East
Iran-Saudi rapprochement shakes up a status quo that was never very stable in the first place.
By David IgnatiusIn the Western Balkans, the West is trying to push Russia out
A settlement between Serbia and Kosovo pursued by the West may help sideline Russia in the region. But a hasty deal could leave the door open to Moscow.
By Agon Maliqi