Michael Isikoff

Michael Isikoff is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author who has reported for The Washington Post, Newsweek, NBC News and Yahoo News.

September 12, 2026

Diplomacy/Geopolitics

BRICS Challenges the Old Order

Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared that the BRICS cooperation mechanism has become the world’s most influential platform for cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries, positioning the grouping at the centre

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

BRICS Draws a New Global Line: Full Text of New Delhi Declaration

by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The BRICS New Delhi Declaration is less a routine summit communiqué than a broad statement of intent about how its members believe the international system should function. Across 140 paragraphs, the expanded grouping calls

September 12, 2026

Never Forget Abbottabad — The Other Chapter of 9/11

Geopolitics/World

Twenty‑five years ago, the United States endured one of the darkest days in its history. On September 11, 2001, al‑Qaeda terrorists led by Osama

Top Chinese Economist Calls for a Bigger Chinese Footprint in Sri Lanka

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

by Our Correspondent in Colombo A prominent Chinese economist has called for a substantially expanded economic and commercial relationship between China and Sri Lanka,

CIA plans to kidnap or poison the Wkileaks leader?

June 26, 2024

Defence/Diplomacy/World

After nearly two decades on and off the run, Julian Assange has finally been convicted—in a plea deal that is sending him to Australia and freedom. The outcome presents a crushing defeat

Kushner’s Pro-Russia Serbian Deal Sparks Outrage

June 5, 2024

United States/World

After weathering criticism over its reliance on a gusher of Saudi cash, Jared Kushner’s investment fund made its first big splash last month when it announced it had signed a $500 million