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The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva
The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva

Russia to U.N. Members: You’re With Us or Against Us

Moscow will interpret a failure to vote against its ouster from the Human Rights Council as a show of support for the U.S.

Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto and Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde bump fists.
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto and Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde bump fists.
A destroyed building in Ukraine
A destroyed building in Ukraine

Ukraine’s War Has Already Changed the World’s Economy

Global economics will never be the same—but not in the ways you might think.

China

The Russian and Chinese national flags are seen on the table as Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his China's President Xi Jinping stand during a signing ceremony at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2014.
The Russian and Chinese national flags are seen on the table as Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his China's President Xi Jinping stand during a signing ceremony at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2014.

Opposing China Means Defeating Russia

Middle East & Africa

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra addresses supporters during a rally of the United Hearts Movement political party at the Omnisport Stadium in Bangui on March 18.
Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra addresses supporters during a rally of the United Hearts Movement political party at the Omnisport Stadium in Bangui on March 18.

Will Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Impact the Central African Republic?

Europe

Americas

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (C) and his brother and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan (R) in Rabat, Morocco on March 29.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (C) and his brother and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan (R) in Rabat, Morocco on March 29.

How Biden Can Rebuild U.S. Ties With the Gulf States

Ukraine Crisis: What to Read

Illustration United States Ukraine
Illustration United States Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony marking the 1,030th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity by Prince Vladimir, the leader of Kievan Rus, in Moscow on July 28, 2018.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony marking the 1,030th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity by Prince Vladimir, the leader of Kievan Rus, in Moscow on July 28, 2018.

Putin’s Thousand-Year War

The reasons for his anti-Western enmity stretch back over Russia’s entire history—and they will be with us for a long time.

German protesters hold signs in support of Ukraine.
German protesters hold signs in support of Ukraine.

How Putin Bungled His Invasion of Ukraine

Faulty assumptions, terrible logistics, and a ferocious Ukrainian resistance have turned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Ukrainian adventure to ashes—for now.

Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin

The Intellectual Catastrophe of Vladimir Putin

The meaning of Russia’s war in Ukraine is its own national weakness.

Long Reads

Activists march with an inflatable globe during a demonstration against nuclear weapons in Berlin on Nov. 18, 2017.
Activists march with an inflatable globe during a demonstration against nuclear weapons in Berlin on Nov. 18, 2017.

How to Avoid the Dark Ages of Arms Control

There are two possible pathways after Ukraine. One of them is harrowing.

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taiwan-china-us-war-games-nicolas-ortega-illustration

War-Gaming Taiwan: When Losing to China Is Winning

What military planners learn when they simulate a Chinese attack.

Then-U.S. President Donald Trump talks to journalists during a news conference about his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic at the White House in Washington on July 22, 2020.
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump talks to journalists during a news conference about his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic at the White House in Washington on July 22, 2020.

Donald Trump’s History Book

Journalists have written the “first rough draft of history,” but now it is historians’ turn to assess a most unconventional presidency.

Rangers stop a fishing boat for questioning at a bird sanctuary and protected area by Prek Toal floating village in Battambang province, Cambodia on October 14, 2020.
Rangers stop a fishing boat for questioning at a bird sanctuary and protected area by Prek Toal floating village in Battambang province, Cambodia on October 14, 2020.

China Is Choking Off Asia’s Most Important River

Upstream dams are destroying the Mekong Basin.

Poetry and Politics

Anti-government protesters guard the perimeter of Independence Square, known as Maidan, on February 19, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
Anti-government protesters guard the perimeter of Independence Square, known as Maidan, on February 19, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

The Poet Laureate of Hybrid War

The tragicomic absurdities of 21st century warfare are finally being transformed into literature.

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Citizen, An American Lyric_DEF_SW_V1

Lines of Resistance

Will America see a rebirth of political verse?

Bertolt Brecht in 1937. (Fred Stein/Picture-Alliance/dpa/Associated Press)
Bertolt Brecht in 1937. (Fred Stein/Picture-Alliance/dpa/Associated Press)

Poetry for the Masses

1,200 newly translated poems from Bertolt Brecht offer an unexpected survival guide for difficult times.

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kirsch

Reading in the Dark

In the age of Trump, literature can sustain those searching for the courage to resist the politics of division.

visual stories

Protester throws debris
Protester throws debris

The Month in World Photos

Continued devastation and heartbreak in war-torn Ukraine, record flooding in Australia, and an International Women’s Day protest in Mexico City. This was March 2022.

Kharkiv residents sleep on the ground in the Kharkiv metro station on March 10.
Kharkiv residents sleep on the ground in the Kharkiv metro station on March 10.

Life Underground in Bomb-Shattered Kharkiv

Two weeks into the war, residents of Ukraine’s second-largest city are still surviving in squalid shelters.

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