Commentary and Analysis

Deborah Amos, Bobby Ghosh, and David Luhnow join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Paul Poast unpacks how the Normandy invasion shaped international politics in the 20th century and its impact still today.

Despite Illinois's trade ties with Taiwan, other Midwest states have taken steps that Illinois hasn’t to deepen their government’s relationship with Taipei.

The speech comes as isolationist views are growing, Ivo Daalder tells NPR. "NATO is becoming politicized in a way it never was until this point."

The hunt for the key battery component is only the beginning of the story.

A military veteran and businessman, the founder of DT Global has both a corporate and humanitarian presence in many of the world’s political hot spots.

Prashant Rao, Anna Sauerbrey, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

"Demographic changes will be the key driver of global competition over the next century and beyond," Paul Poast writes.

"There is ample evidence that Xi and the CCP are interested in constructive engagement and peaceful coexistence with the United States," Paul Heer writes.

If, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "music is the universal language of mankind," then the Old Town School of Folk Music is a great place to become fluent.