President Trump used to love a man in uniform but these days he's soured on his generals. This week, Ian looks at how the President's cooling relationship with his top brass has affected U.S. foreign policy and then he'll talk to Michèle Flournoy, who was the highest-ranking woman at the Pentagon. And on Puppet Regime we find out what keeps Trump up at night.
Han Duck-soo, now the acting South Korean prime minister, gives a speech during the opening ceremony of the AI Global Forum in Seoul, South Korea, on May 22, 2024.
This story just gets wilder by the day. Barely two weeks since President Yoon Suk Yeol was stripped of his duties for attempting a coup, the opposition has moved to impeach his successor, Yoon’s fellow People Party member Han Duck-soo.
Finnish authorities on Thursday seized a Russian oil tanker suspected of sabotaging an undersea electricity cable linking Finland and Estonia earlier this week.
Israel on Thursday struck military sites and power infrastructure across parts of Yemen controlled by the Houthi militia.
This time last year, we had you buckle up for the world’s most intense year of democracy in action, with more than 65 countries holding elections involving at least 4.2 billion people. As we now know, many of those voters turned against incumbents in 2024 — from the United Kingdom and the United States to Botswana, Japan, and South Korea, just to name a handful. Now, we’re spotlighting the 10 most consequential elections of 2025.
While the second season will not officially launch until Jan. 20, 2025, the Donald Trump show has already come to town.
South Korean military officials said Monday that they had detected North Korean preparations to deploy more troops and weapons to Russia, and elaborated that at least 100 of Pyongyang’s soldiers had been killed and 1,000 more wounded so far, while Ukrainians claim 200 have died and nearly 3,000 had been wounded.
For the Democrats, 2024 was the year of the ostrich, or the koala, according to lapsed-Democratic voters asked to describe the party as an animal in post-election research.