Why We Don’t Trust Doctors Like We Used To

Patients often feel ignored and complain about disjointed care and a lack of communication

Syrian Forces Battle Insurgents in Serious Test for New Government

Ambushes by Assad loyalists are among the fiercest yet, stretching the forces of the former rebels who seized power last year

Trump’s Embrace of Putin Has Germany Thinking of Nuclear Weapons

The travails of the Western alliance have injected urgency into a debate about homegrown alternatives to the U.S. nuclear umbrella

Top U.S. Officials to Meet Ukraine Counterparts Next Week in Riyadh

Saudi meeting follows U.S. cutoff of military aid and intelligence to Kyiv

Two Small Adversaries of Russia and China Are Swapping Notes to Survive

Taiwan and the Czech Republic work to boost each other in business and security despite superpower headwinds

Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department

Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to ‘take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure’

Supreme Court Lifts Pause on Foreign-Aid Payouts

A 5-4 court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to suspend a lower-court directive to resume nearly $2 billion in funding

The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People

The highest-earning 10% of Americans have increased their spending far beyond inflation. Everyone else hasn’t.

7 Takeaways from Trump’s Speech to Congress

President marked his disruptive return to Washington with an unapologetic address

Trump Threatens to Pull Funding From Universities Over Protests

Legal experts say holding back federal financing would violate First Amendment protections

Five Things to Watch in Trump’s Address to Congress

The president says he will ‘TELL IT LIKE IT IS’ in a State of the Union-style speech Tuesday evening

How Germany’s AfD Harnessed Social Media

The far-right group has learned to communicate in a country where traditional media no longer shape public opinion

U.S. Pauses All Military Aid to Ukraine

Move comes days after contentious meeting between Trump and Zelensky

Washington’s Embrace of Putin Aims to Drive Wedge Between Moscow and Beijing

Unlike Nixon and Kissinger’s gambit in the 1970s, the strategy threatens to divide the West

Zelensky, Who Stood Up to Putin, Now Refuses to Bow to Trump

The Ukrainian leader, who relies on his own instincts, clashed with the U.S. president over how to secure a lasting peace

After 150 Years of Friendship, the U.S. and Canada Come to Blows

Tariff threats and talk of making Canada the 51st state have unleashed rancor and instability into one of the world’s most powerful partnerships

Trump and Zelensky Both Suffer Setbacks After Oval Office Blowup

Display of disunity risks emboldening Russia’s Vladimir Putin in negotiations to end the war

Fewer Than 10 Jews Live in Syria. A Diaspora Is Edging Back.

Émigrés hope the battered country—sometimes a haven, sometimes a persecutor—can again be home under the new government

Extracting Ukraine’s Minerals Won’t Be Easy. Getting Near Them Will Be Even Harder.

Limited infrastructure, out-of-date maps and corruption hindered efforts to mine in the country even before the war

Imprisoned Kurdish Militant Leader Calls on Followers to Disarm After 40 Years of Conflict

ISTANBUL—An imprisoned Kurdish militant leader urged his followers on Thursday to give up their weapons, opening an opportunity to defuse a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people in recent decades, and destabilized Turkey and the wider Middle East. Abdullah Öcalan , the leader and founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known […]