Keith Johnson

Brussels is trying to convince holdouts to support a novel plan to use billions of Moscow’s money to aid Ukraine.

The Trump administration’s cavalier approach to the rule of law is the end of an era.

He was late to the show, but he brought a big stick.

A. Wess Mitchell’s tour through two millennia of diplomacy is catnip for foreign-policy wonks.

Moscow is targeting Ukraine’s natural gas supply, right with winter just around the corner.

The threat to Moscow’s oil earnings is huge. But will it be enough?

Billions for Buenos Aires, and support for Argentine farmers, is not sitting well in the U.S. heartland.

Cutting U.S. assistance to Bogotá will make it harder to stop record flows of cocaine.

Kyiv’s two-year offensive against Russian oil facilities has intensified, eating away at Moscow’s energy revenues.

How an idea that promised a brave new world seemingly delivered dystopia instead.

Moscow pivoted to the east a decade ago, but it is now besmitten—or captive.

It’s not the economy, stupid.

Germany’s vocal support for mobilizing hundreds of billions of Moscow’s reserves could be a game-changer for Ukraine.

EU measures to kneecap energy, banks, and defense firms contrast with Washington’s passivity.

The dollar isn’t getting dethroned—yet—by outside rivals, but Trump may be doing their work for them.

The would-be agreement between Iran and the IAEA hinges on U.S. willingness to come back to the table.

The Russian economy may be wobbly, but it is still funding a deadly war with oil and gas sales.

France, Germany, and the U.K. ran out of patience with Tehran and are bringing back previously halted U.N. measures.

Central banks are independent for a reason.

After a flurry of diplomacy, what was actually agreed to?