The decision by María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, to emerge from hiding and leave the country has electrified her movement but carries political risks.

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If the Trump administration allows Nicolás Maduro to endure, it will signal that a criminal dictatorship masquerading as a state can stare down the United States and win.

Threats against us aren’t limited to one hemisphere.

A former secretary of homeland security on the illegality of Trump’s boat strikes.

Trump and Hegseth are attacking the very character and identity of the American military.

Federal lawmakers have ample powers to uncover and end administration abuse.

Latin Americans have proved surprisingly acquiescent to U.S. aggression — but that won’t last forever.

Readers respond to a guest essay about America’s fentanyl problem. Also: A dark echo at Penn.

The administration’s drug war rhetoric seems like a pretext. But a pretext for what?

Everything the Trump administration is doing to stop the flow of drugs is just making the problem worse.

China will require licenses for export of 13 chemicals used to make the deadly drug, another indicator of thawing tensions between the world’s two largest economies

Zhi Dong Zhang, who escaped house arrest in Mexico this summer, is accused of supplying cartels with fentanyl from China, smuggling and money laundering millions under the alias “Brother Wang.”