How Cyber Restraint Makes Us All Safer

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​national interest​​​ by Brandon Valeriano At a broad, strategic level, restraint emphasizes doing less with less; protecting a narrow set of core interests in ways that respect the limits of power. →

What Saudi Arabia Wants From America

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​national interest​​​ by Mohammed Khalid Alyahya The first time I visited Houston, Texas, I was struck by how much it reminded me of al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, the town I grew up in. It wasn’t just the →

America Needs Strategic Empathy in a Multipolar World

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​national interest​​​ by Arta Moeini Coleman Hopkins As the Russo-Ukrainian War continues, Washington is calling on the world to pick sides in the dispute. President Joe Biden in particular has used →

Intl rules not the rules of a small circle: Chinese FM on Truss warning China

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​global times​​​ International rules should be the norms governing international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, rather than the rules of a small circle or clique, →

US howitzer sale to Taiwan ‘halted,’ but mainland should remain alert over ‘advanced alternatives’

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​global times​​​ By Wang Qi The first deal approved by the Biden administration to sell $750 million worth of arms to Taiwan, including 40 155mm M109A6 medium self-propelled howitzers, has been →

Combat death puts spotlight on Americans fighting in Ukraine

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​politico​​​ Harrison Jozefowicz quit his job as a Chicago police officer and headed overseas soon after Russia invaded Ukraine. An Army veteran, he said he couldn’t help but join American volunteers →

South Africa: Protesting miners stop Ramaphosa May Day speech

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​africa news​​​ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa abandoned his Workers' Day speech in the northwestern city of Rustenburg on Sunday when striking mineworkers stormed the stage. The workers →

Finland will decide to apply for NATO membership on May 12, says Iltalehti newspaper

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​reuters​​​ Finland will decide to apply for NATO membership on May 12, Finnish newspaper Iltalehti reported late on Sunday, citing anonymous government sources. The decision to join will come in two →

In shift, Germany could back immediate EU ban on Russian oil

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​reuters​​​ Germany said on Monday it was prepared to back an immediate European Union embargo on Russian oil, a major shift from Moscow's biggest energy customer that could let Europe impose such a →

Exxon Mobil doubled its profit from last year to $5.5 billion

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​cbs news​​​ As gas prices continue to soar across the nation, oil producer Exxon Mobil reported $5.4 billion in profit during the first quarter — doubling its profits compared to the same quarter →

Florida is the least affordable place to live in the U.S.

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​cbs news​​​ Sally Starkey thought moving from Chicago to Florida would be easy. The 33-year-old publicist moved to Naples, Florida, when her husband got a nearby job. Familiar with the area from →

Russia's war escalates in eastern Ukraine even as Mariupol ceasefire enables evacuations from Azovstal steel plant

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​cbs news​​​ Bakhmut, Ukraine — The evacuation of civilians who've spent two months holed up in tunnels under a sprawling steelworks in the besieged southeast Ukrainian city of Mariupol resumed on →

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