As long-haul travel tightens in 2026, politics is no longer background noise. From renewed U.S. policy uncertainty to the fallout of the Trump Tower Belgrade controversy, the “Trump factor” is ...

In a speech at the World Economic Forum last month, Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European Union’s executive body, repeatedly stressed the bloc’s need for “independence.” She was speaking against ...

Given that U.S. President Donald Trump spent the first year of his second term imposing steep tariffs on European goods, toying with the idea of withdrawing U.S. troops from Europe, and even ...

Patterns and strategy in current U.S. foreign policy are hard to discern given President Donald Trump’s personalistic, mercurial, and transactional style. But almost a year since the elections, the ...

Never since American troops came to Europe’s rescue eight decades ago have the links between the new and old worlds seemed so frayed. MAGA types in Washington ooze contempt for their transatlantic ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. We got this. That was the Trump administration’s message to ...

The United States’ security ties with Europe are fraying. Even before the war in Iran returned the Middle East to the front of policymakers’ minds, the United States was already shifting its focus ...

THE SUEZ crisis, the Vietnam war, the invasion of Iraq: non-European wars have a way of tearing at the fabric of NATO. America’s month-long bombing of Iran (in partnership with Israel) looks like the ...