When the US president calls journalists ‘enemies of the people’ it emboldens dictators

The presidents represent competing traditions of thought about international relations

Donald Trump’s nationalist ideology fails to heed lessons of the 1930s

Germany is heading for a period of introversion and instability

Even ultimate failure would not invalidate his claim to be a truly historic president

Do not expect radical shifts in US Middle East policy despite Khashoggi scandal

Brazil threatens to become part of a global political turn away from liberalism

The Kavanaugh hearing in the US has shown that men fear a loss of power and status

The government’s defiant mood in negotiations with the EU risks further humiliation

The US and South Korea are betting that the leader in Pyongyang is a secret reformer

For political reasons, Trump and Xi will find it hard to back away from this fight

A surge of populist sentiment is part of a broader shift in international politics

A bitter rift between Brussels and London would be geopolitical madness

In today’s more open societies, lying politicians will be caught out by reality checks

A political phenomenon is pitting metropolitan elites against small-town populists