On Wednesday, Americans woke up to a flurry of news regarding President Donald Trump’s hostile meeting with NATO leaders in ...

Plagued by wars, political deadlock and social problems, Washington is losing its influence as a global power, observers say.

In the same year as America’s founding, Edward Gibbon wrote “Decline and Fall.” 250 years later, it still holds lessons for ...

A cage fight on the South Lawn helps us understand violence, politics and spectacle in the Age of Trump ...

Depopulation — unremitting, long-term population decline — promises to be the 21st century’s most important demographic trend. After centuries of seemingly unstoppable increase, world population is on ...

Despite all its problems, the U.S. economy is actually outperforming its competitors, China and the European Union, two ...

My pessimistic view of our nation’s future triggered me to write “Five reasons American decline appears irreversible” in January 2024. That rambunctious presidential election year now feels like ...

A grand summit in Beijing is a natural time to assess the state of the U.S.-China competition, the dynamics of great power conflict, the balance of forces in this new Cold — or maybe just Cool? — War.