NEW YORK — More than six dozen countries will hold elections this year, but none will be more consequential than the one scheduled for November in the United States.

 NEW YORK — In my old job at the US State Department, colleagues often asked me what was likely to happen in this or that situation. Often, there was no way of knowing, and I reminded questioners that I was director of Policy Planning, not of predicting.

NEW YORK — There are many reasons to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

NEW YORK — The upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania promises to be anything but business as usual for the simple reason that it will be taking place against the backdrop of a European war that has been raging ever since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in

NEW YORK — For more than three-quarters of a century, the United States has played an outsized, constructive role in the world.

MUNICH — In the year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has evolved in ways few predicted.

NEW YORK — Few will miss 2022, a year defined by a lingering pandemic, advancing climate change, galloping inflation, slowing economic growth, and, more than anything else, the outbreak of a costly war in Europe and concerns that violent conflict could soon erupt in Asia.

NEW YORK  —  Midterm elections take place in the United States every four years, halfway into a president’s term and two years before the next presidential election.

NEW YORK — Nuclear weapons have been a feature of international relations since August 1945, when the United States dropped two of them on Japan to hasten the end of World War II.