Unless the U.S. can accept a more modest role in a multipolar world, more Afghanistan-type misadventures are inevitable.

Tracing my mother’s journey from Warsaw to New Zealand via Palestine.

Domestic peace at long last? Sudan’s fraught path to the ICC in The Hague.

Plus: A recipe for Southeast Asian bumbu sauce

Afghanistan could emerge as a venue for Middle Eastern rivalries.

The Republican Party is utterly unprepared for the hard realities of relative U.S. decline vis-à-vis China.

Explaining one of the world’s most unique culinary traditions.

Like the world’s dwindling forests, the stars at night are also in danger of disappearing.

The sorrow, regret and guilt at the death of a sibling hit émigrés hard.

The EU’s foreign policy approaches to Iran and Afghanistan demonstrate the challenges for the world’s middle powers.