The Democratic field could touch on a number of foreign policy issues, from climate change to Iran, during its first prime-time sparring session.

Whatever taboo existed against extraterritorial renditions and executions in other places around the world never really existed in mainland Southeast Asia.

This week, White House national security adviser John Bolton attacked the International Criminal Court. Instead, he should be supporting this important institution.

Russia saw its full-spectrum engagement with Southeast Asia pay dividends following its all-out invasion of Ukraine. But its brief interlude of greater influence in the region is now waning.

By 2020, with the state of democracy already in dire shape, it seemed that things couldn’t get worse. And yet, in the past few years, they have.