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May 20, 2024
Tehran has concluded that a regional reordering is underway. The death of the president and foreign minister won't change that.
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May 20, 2024
The announcement ramps up pressure on Israel and puts the United States in a new bind.
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May 20, 2024
Its long-standing attitude toward the island is based on a set of military and political foundations that no longer exist.
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May 20, 2024
Without an equitable agreement, including wealthy nations sharing IP with poorer ones, the world is doomed to repeat its COVID-era mistakes.
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May 20, 2024
The president's sudden death in a helicopter crash creates uncertainty for the country amid regional turmoil.
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May 19, 2024
From the United States to Ukraine, music has influenced—and been influenced by—international politics.
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May 19, 2024
One of the courses at Lai Ching-te's inauguration banquet is rumored to be a playful nod to Xi Jinping.
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May 19, 2024
A new psychological analysis of Soviet leaders fundamentally alters 20th-century global history.
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May 18, 2024
Amazon's adaptation of the video game knows what Americans should really be afraid of.
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May 18, 2024
As a potential U.S. Treasury secretary, Robert Lighthizer has more than trade policy to revolutionize.
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May 17, 2024
Beijing plans to help purchase unsold homes, slash down payments, and reduce mortgage interest rates.
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May 17, 2024
What the war in Gaza is doing to U.S.-Israeli relations.
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May 17, 2024
In some markets, the megastar creates her own economic climate system.
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May 17, 2024
"We are very concerned," says WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
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May 17, 2024
Decades of deindustrialization and downsizing have left America without shipyards to build and maintain a fleet.
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May 17, 2024
The country's top two candidates are women, but feminists aren't declaring victory yet.
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May 17, 2024
Washington's backing for Kyiv and avoidance of risk are increasingly at odds.
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May 17, 2024
Italy's far-right prime minister has quickly gone from fringe player to EU power broker.
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May 16, 2024
The leaders committed to expanding space, military, and energy cooperation to counter "Washington's destructive and hostile" behavior.
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May 16, 2024
National security experts warn that some of those purchases are too close for comfort.
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May 16, 2024
Washington can accept reality and shift strategies.
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May 16, 2024
Josep Borrell, Europe's outgoing foreign-policy chief, on the U.S., China, Ukraine, and Gaza.
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May 16, 2024
Why Turkey's application to join South Africa's ICJ case trivializes the charges against Israel.
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May 16, 2024
Bad-faith attacks are putting U.S. security in danger.
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May 15, 2024
The country has achieved a measure of economic stability, but it needs structural reforms—not just a bailout.
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May 15, 2024
The leftist leader is known for his pro-Russian, anti-Western rhetoric.
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May 15, 2024
Moscow is exploiting Biden's restrictive rules on U.S. weapons use to make gains, Ukrainian officials say.
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May 15, 2024
A long-ruling party sees vulnerability as key to its own security and power.
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May 15, 2024
Russia's nuclear threats to reach conventional goals in Ukraine mark a new era of brinkmanship.
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May 15, 2024
The gas giant's record loss should worry the Kremlin on several fronts.
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May 15, 2024
And how it might yet save it.
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May 14, 2024
Beijing denounced the move as the White House seeks to court key U.S. battleground states ahead of November's presidential election.
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May 14, 2024
Putin's political project rests on normalizing violence—including domestic abuse.
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May 14, 2024
It's not clear if Biden's expanded tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles will ultimately serve U.S. interests.
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May 14, 2024
The United States is an unpredictable ally—but Beijing isn't a better option.
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May 14, 2024
If she wins Mexico's presidency, Claudia Sheinbaum's most daunting political challenge will be persona, not policy.
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May 14, 2024
Scholars and policymakers are still trying to understand what would happen after Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon.
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May 14, 2024
Long seen as an island of stability, the country shares many of the same vulnerabilities that militants have exploited across the Sahel region.
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May 13, 2024
Lawmakers are expected to greenlight the Russian-modeled legislation on Tuesday despite mass protests in the capital.
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May 13, 2024
Competitors of the United States face plunging birthrates and social gloom.
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May 13, 2024
Putin's appointment of economist Andrei Belousov suggests Moscow is digging in for the long haul.
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May 13, 2024
Rights groups worry the closing of the Qatari network is just the beginning.
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May 13, 2024
The continent's radicals are increasingly attractive far beyond their traditional pool of voters.
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May 13, 2024
A mistaken provision has given Beijing control of a key port.
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May 12, 2024
The pair are dangerously close to the edge of nuclear war over Taiwan—again.
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May 12, 2024
Exploring the parallels between the social unrest of then and now on film.
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May 11, 2024
In the Navy, you can do as you please.
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May 11, 2024
Perhaps tens of thousands of Ukrainian women have lost their partners in the conflict with Russia. They look to rebuild amid precarity and uncertainty.
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May 10, 2024
The resolution is a symbolic win for Palestinian statehood without granting U.N. voting rights.
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May 10, 2024
More people are buying electric cars, just not from Elon Musk.
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May 10, 2024
Test yourself on the week of May 4: Chad and Panama go to the polls, Iran and Russia refine their weapons strategies, and Israel shutters a foreign news outlet.
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May 10, 2024
Bestselling author Roberto Vannacci is eclipsing Giorgia Meloni, but entering politics could blunt his popularity.
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May 10, 2024
The Biden administration needs to recognize that the problems lie with Israeli politics.
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May 10, 2024
How an amnesty deal for Catalan separatists became a political—and personal—headache for the Spanish prime minister.
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May 10, 2024
A new foreign agents law could be the death knell of a once-promising young democracy.
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May 10, 2024
By denying that Israel has violated international humanitarian law in Gaza, Washington is discrediting itself and the order that it claims to uphold.
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May 10, 2024
José Raúl Mulino faces an uphill climb out of an economic and political slump.
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May 10, 2024
As universities take center stage in the debate over Israel's war in Gaza, the unrest could spell trouble for Biden's reelection campaign.
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May 09, 2024
The White House hopes minor migration changes will appease voters ahead of the November presidential election.
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May 09, 2024
The U.S. president pauses some military aid as tensions with Israel mount.
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May 09, 2024
Washington's current approach is a strategic cop-out—and risks making another forever war.
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May 09, 2024
A major talent squeeze is complicating Washington's critical mineral ambitions.
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May 09, 2024
Hans-Georg Maassen has a troubling relationship with the far-right—just like the agency he used to head.
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May 09, 2024
How the Brazilian left has become a victim of its own success.
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May 09, 2024
Pressuring allies not to retaliate against attacks raises the risk of spiraling conflicts.
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May 08, 2024
The anti-Western mindset of Serbia's and Hungary's leaders fuels ample opportunities for Chinese investment.
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May 08, 2024
Electoral predictions in Karnataka underscore the challenge Modi and the BJP face to reaching a national supermajority.
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May 08, 2024
Taipei is seeking U.S.-made loitering munitions to help deter or ward off a potential Chinese invasion.
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May 08, 2024
Jakarta's latest development gamble hinges on the green transition.
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May 08, 2024
The Biden administration lays out its plan to build a global dream team of technology defenders.
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May 08, 2024
Washington is brokering a diplomatic deal that could deeply distort its relationship with Riyadh.
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May 08, 2024
After Parliament overruled the Supreme Court and declared Rwanda safe, Sunak's government is rounding up asylum-seekers.
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May 08, 2024
The right-wing nationalist opposition is making a comeback as voters punish the Social Democrats for scandals and broken EU accession promises.
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May 07, 2024
Plus, Russian authorities detain a U.S. soldier for criminal misconduct.
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May 07, 2024
Past is prologue, to the chagrin of experts, economists, and allies.
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May 07, 2024
Asylum-seekers and others are making the journey through the risky Darién Gap in the wake of the pandemic.
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May 07, 2024
The Russian leader was sworn in amid spiraling tensions with the West.
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May 07, 2024
Washington is wrong to accept the court's indictment of Russian, but not Israeli, leaders.
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May 07, 2024
Georgians are angry at the government's pro-Russian turn.
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May 07, 2024
A former ICC president answers questions about the top court's jurisdiction in the Israel-Hamas war.
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May 07, 2024
Why Xi Jinping is visiting France, Serbia, and Hungary this week.
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May 07, 2024
Why are China hawks exaggerating the threat from Beijing?
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May 07, 2024
Near-simultaneous presidential elections risk putting bilateral relations on a collision course.
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May 07, 2024
The Indian prime minister has demonstrated that there is only one form of journalism he likes.
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May 06, 2024
Israeli troops would face a battle-hardened enemy while trying to get tens of thousands of civilians out of the way.
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May 06, 2024
Netanyahu's office says Israel's war cabinet has unanimously decided to continue the Rafah operation.
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May 06, 2024
A how-to guide for university students from a sympathetic observer.
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May 06, 2024
The April 14 missile barrage showed Israel that it cannot prevail against Iran on its own.
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May 06, 2024
The April 14 missile barrage showed Israel that it cannot prevail against Iran on its own.
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May 06, 2024
The TikTok ban shows how decisions end up rushed—after being ignored.
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May 06, 2024
A top House Democrat gets real on Ukraine, Israel, and China.
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May 05, 2024
All of the administration's diplomatic weaknesses were already visible in the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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May 05, 2024
What makes a modern empire, from Russia to cyberspace.
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May 05, 2024
Religions aren't just spiritual communities. They're also businesses.
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May 05, 2024
The band leader broke new ground in U.S. cultural diplomacy even as he faced racism at home.
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May 04, 2024
Two new books turn a spotlight on how the colonial past lives on in unacknowledged ways.
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May 03, 2024
University demonstrations like those seen in the United States have arisen around the world, from Mexico to France to Australia.
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May 03, 2024
What would meeting the demands of pro-Palestinian protesters cost the university?
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May 03, 2024
Two experts reflect on the impact of international pressure amid a fraught conflict.
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May 03, 2024
We need a new framework to understand how today's autocrats control public opinion.
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