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Byline: Bill PowellThe South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf was an offshore discovery that, for oilmen, is the stuff of dreams. The largest natural gas field in the [...]

Byline: Bill Powell and Nina Burleigh Paul Grilli remembered the implosion clearly. It was April 28, 1982, and the Youngstown, Ohio, native stood across from U.S. Steel's Ohio Works, one [...]

Byline: Bill Powell After his last trip to Pyongyang in July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo knew that Washington's efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear program were flailing. Kim Jong [...]

Byline: Bill Powell For more than six decades, U.S. presidents had a hard and fast rule when it came to North Korea: Don't meet with a dictator. The mere image [...]

Byline: Bill Powell In early 2012, a few months after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was buried in an elaborate state funeral, I found myself in the Pyongyang office [...]

Byline: Bill Powell It was a master class in public relations, and one that may have stopped a trade war. For now. While U.S. President Donald Trump stewed about Beijing [...]

Byline: Bill Powell It was a bland, bureaucratic statement--but its implications could be profound. In late February, China's Communist Party announced a proposal to abolish term limits for its highest [...]

Byline: Bill Powell As the 2018 winter Olympics opened in Pyeongchang, South Korea, dozens of miles south of the heavily fortified border that has divided the Korean peninsula for more [...]

Byline: Bill Powell Few saw it coming. On December 28, protests erupted in Mashhad, Iran's second largest city, as thousands took to the streets to complain about the country's lousy [...]

Byline: Bill Powell It was supposed to be an ordinary family vacation, but it turned into something with grave global implications--and it wasn't very relaxing. In the spring of 2016, [...]

Byline: Bill Powell It was election night 1984, and Laura Ingraham, then a student at Dartmouth College, was drinking and dancing at a hotel near her campus when the returns [...]

Byline: Bill Powell It was an audacious move, one of the riskiest in the history of modern diplomacy. In 1972, when China was desperately poor and largely insular, President Richard [...]

Byline: Bill Powell After North Korea successfully detonated what it claims was a hydrogen bomb--and as the country prepares for yet another intercontinental missile test--the Trump administration's national security woes [...]

Byline: Bill Powell Steve Bannon may be gone, but some of his ideas could live beyond his short time in the White House--namely, his provocative views on trade with China. [...]

Byline: Bill Powell Last November, when James Mattis traveled to Bedminster, New Jersey, at the behest of the president-elect, his close friends were shocked. They couldn't believe Mattis, a retired [...]

Byline: Bill Powell The city of Dandong, in China's northeastern Liaoning province, appears to be an embarrassing relic of the country's economic past. Old, run-down state-owned factories sit on the [...]

Byline: Bill Powell Donald Trump's most urgent foreign policy problem--figuring out a way to halt North Korea's nuclear weapons and long-range missile programs--just got more complicated. On May 9, South [...]

Byline: Bill Powell It was a few days after the start of the new millennium, and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was holding a reception at Spaso House, for decades [...]

Byline: Bill Powell In the aftermath of the recent U.S. election, as notables from near and far (and really far) made their pilgrimages to Trump Tower hoping to figure out [...]

Byline: Bill Powell America First: Donald Trump's campaign slogan had a succinct, obvious power. Just two words summed up the instinct that Washington--and big business--was no longer working in the [...]

Byline: Bill Powell The footage is grainy but chilling. On the morning of February 13, a portly, middle-aged man ambles through the main departure terminal at the airport in Kuala [...]

Byline: Bill Powell It had to be a first in the annals of presidential diplomacy: a commander-in-chief getting so addled by a phone conversation with a counterpart that he barked [...]

Byline: Bill Powell In the weeks since Donald Trump was elected, the behavior of U.S. financial markets--and of the stock market in particular--has represented the triumph of hope over common [...]

Byline: Bill Powell As President Barack Obama prepares to leave office, consider the world he has left us. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad's regime--backed by Iran and Russia--is finishing a savage [...]

Byline: Bill Powell Early one evening in January 2009, Xiao Hongzhi walked down a nearly deserted street in the eastern Chinese city of Dongguan, to the door of the factory [...]

The article informs on Ukraine's invasion by the Russian President Vladimir Putin. It mentions Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had tentatively agreed to talks with Moscow on its border with neighboring Belarus. It also mentions that Ukraine, of course, is not a North Atlantic Treaty Organization member; the possibility that it might join the Alliance some day, as other countries that were once part of the old Soviet bloc have done, is a key issue in the current conflict.

NATO ordered an end to 78 days of bombing that forced Serbian troops to retreat from Kosovo, Yugoslavia. British troops began to enter the province, and were suddenly outflanked by 200 Russian troops. Moscow's move appears to have propaganda as its primary motivation. The bombing campaign cost approximately $4 bil, but the occupation costs will be greater.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed to protect itself against an armed attack against its members, met on their 50th anniversary to discuss military aspects of a war they initiated against Yugoslavia. U.S. President Bill Clinton contemplates sending ground troops into the area, an move that would cause irreversible damage in relations with Russia.

The article discusses about the presidential election in United States. Topics include GOP's dominant figure with a rock-solid base of support, party insiders, though, are looking to Trump to help Republicans win elections in future; Trump seems hyper-focused on replaying his claims of election fraud on whatever public stage he can find; and Trump's intervention in Arizona is giving Republican establishment operatives heartburn.

Mourners came in thousands to pay their respect for Galina Starovoitova who was shot by two gunmen on the steps of her apartment. She was an advocate for human rights and contributed much to Boris Yeltsin's presidency. Her burial reminded Russians about their fight for democracy and whether their nation could bear such killings in trying to achieve democracy.

Byline: Bill Powell It was months before Donald J. Trump made that now-legendary ride down the escalator of his beloved Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. Few outside [...]

Byline: Bill Powell As evening fell on November 6, just two days before what is arguably the most stunning political upset in American history, construction worker Jonathan Langford patiently waited [...]

Byline: Bill Powell On June 10, 2014, the day the black flag of the Islamic State militant group went up over the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, life for [...]

Byline: Bill Powell Once upon a time, Bill Clinton thought he had rid the world of worry about the nuclear dreams of the cruel dictator of the Democratic People's Republic [...]

Byline: Bill Powell One year ago, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Mughassil prepared to board a flight from Beirut to Tehran, Iran's capital. Before he could, foreign intelligence agents who had slipped into [...]

Byline: Bill Powell At age 82, and in declining health, the emperor of Japan, Akihito, indicated in a televised address on August 9 that he is contemplating abdication from the [...]

Byline: Bill Powell On the morning after the Brexit vote, a dazed Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, a body consisting of the heads of government of the 28 [...]

Byline: Bill Powell 'A more democratic region will ultimately be more stable for us and our friends. Even if someone wants to be dictatorial, it's going to be difficult.' --An [...]

Byline: Bill Powell The video went viral almost instantly, and for good reason. A corporate executive--Chris Nelson, president of Carrier, a subsidiary of United Technologies that makes air conditioners--stands in [...]

Byline: Bill Powell It was no coincidence that the leak came just a week before Defense Secretary Ashton Carter set forth in April on a high-profile trip to Asia, which [...]

Byline: Bill Powell It was only a matter of time. Given the trade surpluses China has built up year after year, its strengthening currency and its lengthening roster of globally [...]

Byline: Bill Powell For five years, the young man has worked the rolling mill that churns out slab after slab of high-strength steel products bound for auto mills and large [...]