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Stephen Holmes
People write on a banner while attending a "No Kings" protest against U.S. President Donald Trump in Denver on March 28. While Iran¡¯s system is built to survive, America risks weakening its own continuity by concentrating power in one leader.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2026
Why America, not Iran, has a succession problem
Iran has not collapsed. Nor has it staggered in any decisive way. It was built, from the beginning, to survive exactly this kind of assault.
Then-U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, exchange signed copies of the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 8, 2010.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 13, 2026
Why the U.S. let the New START arms control treaty die
The lapse of New START makes one thing clear: U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s willingness to break commitments is a problem for the entire planet.
U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, addresses the media in the Oval Office on Sept. 5, the day he signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2026
Trump has killed American deterrence
Trump has shown countless times that he cannot keep promises. His reversals on TikTok, tariffs and Ukraine demonstrate that his commitments have the lifespan of a mayfly.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House in August.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2026
Appeasing Trump only invites betrayal ¡ª as Europe¡¯s far right just learned
The Europeans have misunderstood who they are dealing with. Trump does not want willing cooperation. He wants painfully extracted submission.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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