SUZANNE MALONEY is Vice President of the Brookings Institution and Director of its Foreign Policy program. She served as an external adviser to the U.S. State Department’s Undersecretary for Political ...

That distinction is easy to miss in Washington, where analysts often assume that geopolitical competition works like a running scoreboard: if the United States loses, China must win, and vice versa.

More than 1,500 US retail stores and restaurants are set to close by the end of 2026. Major chains, including Wendy's and Macy's, are citing efficiency as the reason behind the closures. Eddie Bauer ...