The Constitution grants Congress, not the president, authority over territorial matters. Trump cannot unilaterally acquire territory, regardless of his health concerns or legacy ambitions. He would ...

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Explore how Trump's actions in Venezuela represent a significant violation of international law and the balance of power.

At least until Thursday, the scale of the protests did not approximate the Mahsa Amini protests, but last night they seemed to be much more prolific and spread across Iran in a much larger way and ...

Military-pacted, non-aligned, neutral or simply spineless, every ruler acts in his country’s supreme self interest when confronted with global crises ...

Leadership is crippled and politics is hobbled when those who hold the levers of power are caught in circumstances rather unforeseen or unwarranted. The extent to which Joe Biden was unprepared for a ...

There are so many world-class museums on Museum Island, in the heart of downtown, that it is recognised by Unesco as a World ...

But despite that momentary military success, the Soviet economy and political system continued to decay. Just a dozen years later the USSR collapsed and disintegrated, with its Russian successor state ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his address on New Year's Eve, expressed the belief that Russia would win the war in Ukraine. Putin's traditional speech was first aired in the far-eastern ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin had already claimed “Ukraine is part of Russia” during his first summit with then-U.S. President George W. Bush 24 years ago, according to a declassified U.S. document ...

It was a special Christmas in 1991. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. Then on Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union’s bloody hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered for the last time from the roof of ...