Both China and India aspire for the role, but it is not clear if nations that belong to the group see either of them as a benign leader or their champion

Atmospheric rivers are gaining in intensity across California and the western United States. Communities need to adapt to the havoc wrought by this weather phenomenon.

India's diplomacy will be tested if the Gaza war continues indefinitely, or if relations between Israel and Arab nations further decline.

Wars are fought not only on the battlefield but also in domestic political debates and in histories written after the fact. In the case of the US invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, we are still in this final phase, seeking an elusive consensus about the war’s legacy.

Dozens of federal agencies, including the CDC and FEMA, are battling COVID-19 in the United States.

The global environmental crisis has exposed the limitations of traditional political realism. It is time to embrace ecological realism.