Universal health coverage has driven major gains in public health, from China's dramatic improvements in life expectancy to Thailand's successful expansion of affordable care. By contrast, decades of resistance to publicly funded health care have left millions of Americans without adequate coverage.

Two and a half years of war have depleted much of the moral capital Israel accumulated over the past half-century. Meanwhile, the lobbying machinery in America has a resilience that no fleeting surge of public emotion is likely to overturn.

Four interconnected risks threaten Republican control of the U.S. Congress in November’s midterm elections. The vote will determine not only control of Congress but will also profoundly influence the future trajectory of American politics.

An era has reached its end. Washington now faces a stark choice: It must either pay the true diplomatic and political price of leadership or prepare to hand over the keys to a region it can neither afford nor effectively manage.

By threatening to seize Greenland by force, US President Donald Trump has exposed the childlike illusions of his European admirers. Having spent years cultivating their bromances with him, the continent’s right-wing populists – the United Kingdom’s Nigel Farage, Jordan Bardella in France, Alice Weidel in Germany, Italy’s Matteo Salvini, Robert Fico in Slovakia, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, and Mateusz Morawiecki in Poland – imagined themselves fellow travelers in a revolt against liberal internationalism. Now their idol and patron has been threatening to swallow whole or in part (if the supposed “deal” he has announced comes about) the sovereign territory of a European ally.

Partisan polarization, electoral pressures and factional strife function together, driving Trump to take a tough stance abroad as his main tool in his political gamesmanship.

The United States is undergoing a historically familiar phase of imperial decline, marked by internal dysfunction, economic overreach, and diminishing global credibility, alongside the rise of China and a broader shift toward a multipolar world order.

Over the past year, territorial expansion, military intervention, economic coercion, resource plundering and withdrawal from international agreements have become hallmarks of Donald Trump's imperialism. He is expected to continue to pursue more in the days to come.

Donald Trump and his supporters have neglected the historical role of science as the primary productive force behind America’s economic and military hegemony — an oversight that could put the United States at a disadvantage in the new round of global technological competition.

The unusual movements of U.S. Treasuries and the dollar reflect not only a global reassessment but also questions about America’s national power and international standing. The dollar’s hegemony may soon face a critical turning point.