International

Plus, The Times’s summer book picks. Source link

The foreign policy scholar Emma Ashford explains what President Trump is really doing in the Middle East and Ukraine. Source link

Populism is resilient and sticky, and liberalism has yet to find a reliable formula to defeat it. Source link

The election is a big step toward stabilizing the country. But daunting challenges at home and from abroad await the new leader. Source link

Unlawful border crossings dominate the political debate about immigration. But estimates suggest 40 percent of undocumented people entered the United States lawfully and then stayed. Source link

Putin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him. Source link

Eight people in Boulder, Colo., were burned after a man threw Molotov cocktails in an attack that he had planned for a year, the authorities said. Source link

The Alaska Republican senator has no qualms about criticizing the president. She could play a make-or-break role in pushing back on the legislation carrying his agenda. Source link

A new study found that courts in the state, where many big companies reside, often cleared big payouts to lawyers. It may further embolden the state’s critics. Source link

After more than three years of war, Russia and Ukraine are engaged in direct and public talks to end the fighting, but their positions remain far apart. Source link