Russia’s president is obsessed with the U.S. investigation into hundreds of millions in ill-gotten gains that have benefited his cronies—and very possibly him as well.

Talks need to have a plan and lead to a conclusion, but it’s far from clear the U.S. government has a clear idea what the goal should be, and how it should be reached. Some ideas.

Forget China, Russia, or the Saudis, South Korea is the country spending the most to influence Washington. ‘When Trump got elected, we saw an absolute surge,’ one expert says.

How a little-known lawyer is at the center of a complex nexus of connections between Western fixers, Russian oligarchs, Vladimir Putin—and even Donald Trump

It looks like Kim Jong Un's angling for another Trump meeting, and the U.N. General Assembly would be a good venue. It could break the nuclear impasse — or make things much worse.

Direct military assistance from China would mark a dramatic shift in Middle East geopolitics.

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