Brexiteers promised to “take back control.” But the decision has instead delivered recession, gloom, and despair.
Thirteen years of constant crisis is heading toward inevitable breakdown.
The new president has a unique opportunity to address the biggest threat to his country’s democracy.
The purported ban on opium and ephedra devastates poor farmers, enriches the Taliban, and has done nothing to curb addiction.
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The United States is the only Western government that routinely rewards mega-donors with top diplomatic posts.
Erdogan has focused on Stockholm’s stance toward Kurdish exile groups, but Ankara’s real demand is the end of U.S. support for Kurds in Syria.
It’s time for Beijing to reexamine its long-standing sense of purpose.
Sending American tanks now helps guarantee a safer world tomorrow.
Forgetting the site where Russia became a nuclear power comes with its own risks.
Kashmiris fear an expensive infrastructure project will mean more military domination and demographic change.
The planned development will bring jobs, but raises questions about who speaks for Khoi and San peoples, what is sacred, and how to commemorate injustice.
Fed up with the economy and a political crackdown, young Turks are increasingly looking abroad to find their futures.
Xiongan is a window into Xi Jinping’s ambitions.
Urban centers are taking international relations into their own hands.
Saudi Arabia’s $500 billion planned high-tech city involves forced evictions and vague promises of compensation.
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the world will have to shift its thinking from the national toward the urban.
A new biography of George Kennan, the father of containment, raises questions about whether the old Cold War—and the emerging one with China—could have been avoided.
For many coming home to Ukraine’s east, their prewar lives are a distant dream.
A street vendor’s plight highlights violations that Washington would prefer to ignore.
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