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Experts can't stop restrictions, but they can mitigate them.

The country has sealed its borders — but an outbreak would be a chance for the United States to do good.

Intelligence services do their job by staying out of politics. Donald Trump’s new intelligence chief could end all that.

Cambodia’s autocrat is putting his own people at risk to court his Chinese backers.

Pompeo's plan to make peace with the resurgent Taliban is a sad reminder of all that went wrong in Afghanistan—and how it could have been otherwise.

Economic models often fail to account for hidden assumptions. Ignoring the importance of trust and belonging in society may be hurting New Delhi more than policymakers understand.

In a few words, Bong Joon-ho conjured up a whole tale of economic insecurity.

Many Indians lack the documents needed to prove citizenship—and Muslims are in the firing line.

The U.K.’s new points system will keep low-skilled non-English speakers out, pleasing pro-Brexit voters but devastating entire sectors—from agriculture to health care.

The Davos-inspired era of unrestrained globalization is over, and companies should start putting the national interests of their home countries ahead of profits.

Entrepreneurship can help reintegrate former militants—and may be useful for other types of criminals, too.

An overly strident campaign by Britain’s Labour party to protect transgender people is alienating potential allies across the country.

The popular tourist destination has had no coronavirus cases. Is that good luck—or bad testing?

Tehran’s goals are pragmatic—and may be in line with Washington’s.

The country’s protest movement knows what it’s against—but it never figured out how to achieve what it’s for.

Can planting 10 million trees shore up the country’s borders and save its environment?

The process and results of the Iowa caucuses would be roundly denounced and challenged in the courts in most developing countries. So why are they allowed to stand in the United States?

Trump’s peace plan killed any hope of a negotiated settlement. Rather than empty rhetoric, Palestinian leaders owe their people a new approach—even if it means disbanding the PA.

The end of conscription has left the army critically undermanned.

It may be too late to contain the new coronavirus. But we can safeguard the world against the next one.

Epidemics raise worrying questions about how to limit state power.

Ending the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and the United States is a deeply unpopular move.

For decades, right-wing parties were on the rise. But as religious voters become more secular and a corruption scandal taints the Likud party, the country’s rightist bloc seems to have hit a ceiling.

The country has some of the worst rates of sexual violence in Asia—and old attitudes are proving hard to change.

By triggering the Iran deal’s dispute resolution mechanism, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom are hoping to push the sides back to the negotiating table—but they may escalate instead.

The agency’s history of bloody-handed bungling abroad has come back to haunt U.S. politics.