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When historians and pundits praise Jimmy Carter’s achievements as the US president and extol his exemplary post-presidential years, they mention the recognition of China, the Panama Canal Treaties and the Camp David Accords. Almost no one mentions what Carter achieved in Africa during his presidency. This is a serious oversight.

The Nottingham post-punk duo’s Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn do not hold back – on the state of the nation or their new album, UK Grim

Novelist and veteran Elliot Ackerman on estimates suggesting that Russians and Ukrainians have each lost 100,000

For a Ukrainian village devastated by war, Cold War bunkers built to withstand a nuclear attack that never happened have proven a lifeline for residents who have spent much of the past year living in them.

Republican leaders draw on Reagan-era nostalgia to unite their party, but a 21st-century cold war would not end well for anyone

The US president won rave reviews in Kyiv and Warsaw. But his old, cold war mindset is out of step with a changing world

The war is often described as a conflict between authoritarianism and liberal democracy. That reality has some underappreciated implications.

Russian forces were trying to close their circle around the small mining city of Bakhmut on Monday, while rain and an early spring thaw turned eastern Ukraine's battlefields to mud which could hamper both sides as they try to take the initiative.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday countries like India and South Africa, which have not joined the West in denouncing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, were likely on a trajectory away from alignment with Moscow but that process would not happen "in one fell swoop."