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How Wars End

The shifting nature of war has made peacemaking more difficult. A new kind of back-channel diplomacy can help.

Voice |

Janine di Giovanni

Extending the Trump Ban Won’t Heal Facebook’s Deeper Sickness

Apple cutting the social media giant off from iPhone user data could force a healthy change.

Argument |

Vivek Wadhwa, Alex Salkever

Report Back Better

The State Department’s yearly human rights report may be the United States’ best tool for fighting sexual violence. Biden needs to get it right.

Argument |

Robert Nagel, Ragnhild Nordas

What in the World?

This week in FP’s international news quiz: vaccine waivers, U.S. diplomatic trips, and protests in Colombia.

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Nina Goldman

Scott J. Shapiro

Scott J. Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd professor of law and professor of philosophy at Yale Law School and director of Yale’s Center for Law and Philosophy.

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Welcome to the Post-Leader World

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Oona Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro

July 4, 2020, 6:00 AM

Ukrainian soldiers during a 2015 ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists near the town of Artemivsk (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

What Realists Don’t Understand About Law

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Oona Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro

October 9, 2017, 1:05 PM

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Welcome to the Post-Leader World

What Realists Don’t Understand About Law

How Wars End

Extending the Trump Ban Won’t Heal Facebook’s Deeper Sickness

Report Back Better

What in the World?

China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory