A naturalized American exposes Trump’s attack on what America is and must be.

The rise of China threatens the free world.

For 12 years as a columnist I wore my “heart out after the unattainable.”

Stephen J. Akard became the State Department’s internal watchdog after his predecessor was fired by President Trump at the urging of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has been under investigation.

The bond that binds the West is freedom. Patriotism is to nationalism as dignity is to barbarism.

Tracing Putin’s 22-year slide from statesman to tyrant.

This was a job interview, not a criminal trial. Kavanaugh, in his fury and pathos, failed the test.

Tracing Putin’s 22-year slide from statesman to tyrant.

Ukrainians take to social media, and taboos are tumbling as countries abandon neutrality and people abandon indifference to support their cause.

We are connected to one another and to generations past and future.

Nicolas Cadène sees the failings of France’s secular model even as he upholds it.

As Moscow wages war in Ukraine, its mercenaries have already established control in the Central African Republic — with scant Western reaction.

President Vladimir V. Putin knows that Ukraine’s fate, its access to the sea and its grain exports hinge on Odesa. Without it, the country shrivels to a landlocked rump state.

The French president’s openness to Western troops in Ukraine signaled a quest for military resolve. But some allies felt blindsided.

The invasion of Ukraine, compounding the effects of the pandemic, has contributed to the ascent of a giant that defies easy alignment. It could be the decisive force in a changing global system.

The truth under siege: 2+2 does not equal 5.

Il défend le modèle français de la laïcité mais déplore que “dans les faits, l’égalité n’est pas réelle, la liberté non plus et la fraternité encore moins”.

The E.U. is flawed. But the dream is noble and still worth the fight. It did not deserve to be trashed by hucksters.

We face a choice between a true renewal and a warped fantasy of the past.

The sheen is off America. But betting against the country’s capacity for reinvention was never a good idea.

Trump wants to preserve, protect and defend only himself.

The world’s refugee crisis knows no more sinister exercise in cruelty than Australia’s island prisons.

In a major speech, he recast the war in Ukraine and made clear it could spread.

No event has transformed the continent more profoundly since the end of the Cold War, and there is no going back now.

Trump believes that judges should be agents of those who appoint them. That would be the end of the rule of law.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine reminded his Western counterparts of what was supposed to be an unforgettable lesson from Europe’s past.

The desperate scenes at the Kabul airport will now give Afghanistan a place in America’s national memory as another failed attempt to reshape a far-off land.

Since surviving the 2015 attack on the French satirical magazine’s office, Corinne Rey has created a graphic novel and won national recognition in a man’s world.

There is no preparation for the loneliness of a world from which the two people who put you in it have gone.

How could I ever begrudge you your restlessness, your lip, your effrontery, your impatience? Forgive me, as I forgive you.

Israel's new war in Gaza and the failures behind it are a betrayal of the Zionism in which I still believe.

History wouldn’t happen to be repeating itself, would it?