The late senator spent his final days pushing hard for Ukrainian sovereignty and Saudi-Israeli diplomatic normalization. The post The defining issues Lindsey Graham leaves behind appeared first on Atlantic Council.

A renewed bout of oil volatility sent stocks lower, with concerns about an escalation in Middle East hostilities outweighing attempts to bring about a pause in the war.

“The president of France is my friend, whoever it may be,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said a few months ago. But what if the next one turns out to be far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen, known for hostility to European integration, objecting to more aid for Ukraine and resisting corrections to

Islamabad and the new path to global power.

Ending the war and sustaining the peace requires a new approach to regional security.

The rift between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates is spilling over from geopolitics into global finance. Global banks — long accustomed to treating the Gulf as a single, large and obliging wallet — are now being forced to make difficult choices, preparing for a time when money, people and a

Emerging-market currencies gained to start the week, with Latin American names getting a boost from a drop in volatility and carry appeal.

The secretary of defense’s November announcement on acquisition reform laid out an unprecedented vision across the entire acquisition spectrum to improve the delivery speed of critical capabilities to our warfighters. One foundational pillar is the implementation of a commercial first policy, which

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Somewhere, a hard drive is filling up with secrets no one can read yet, and its owner is waiting for the machine that opens them all at once. On March 30, 2026, that wait got shorter.Two independent research teams lowered the public estimates for breaking the encryption that secures banking, communi