He used the pandemic to ruthlessly tighten his grip on the country. Then he energized its economy by leveraging Russia’s war in Ukraine. By Choe Sang-Hun An imploding economy is causing hopelessness ...

Trump Wants to Call the Shots. But in Iran, He Keeps Hitting His Limits. President Trump is grappling with his own version of the sort of Middle East crisis that beset his predecessors, and that he ...