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Our Top Weekend Reads

Why Biden thinks the way he does about foreign policy, what the future holds for an America on the brink, and what the Cold War policy of containment means for our current moment—all from our latest magazine issue.

5 Top Reads |

Allison Meakem

Trump Mounts Last-Minute Attempt to Starve Funding for Foreign Aid, Global Vaccine Efforts

But congressional sources say it’s highly unlikely lawmakers will cut billions of dollars of already appropriated funding.

Report |

Robbie Gramer

The End of Swiss Neutrality

The country is campaigning for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, but taking on that role will clash with some fundamental tenets of Swiss foreign policy.

Argument |

Stéphanie Fillion

Far-Right Extremism Is a Global Problem

And it is time to treat it like one.

Argument |

Heather Ashby

Mohamed S. Helal

Mohamed S. Helal is a visiting associate professor at Harvard Law School and an associate professor at the Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law.

Stories by Mohamed S. Helal

Workers move iron bars with a crane at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, near Guba in Ethiopia, on Dec. 26, 2019.

Ethiopia’s Power Play on the Nile Has Left the Region in a Deadlock

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Mohamed S. Helal

September 28, 2020, 3:00 AM

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Mohamed S. Helal

Ethiopia’s Power Play on the Nile Has Left the Region in a Deadlock

Our Top Weekend Reads

Trump Mounts Last-Minute Attempt to Starve Funding for Foreign Aid, Global Vaccine Efforts

The End of Swiss Neutrality

Far-Right Extremism Is a Global Problem

Russia’s Security Agencies Are Both Terrifying and Incompetent