Argument
An expert’s point of view on a current event.
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A student shows a letter from the Indonesian health ministry Indonesian Screening May Be Missing Virus Carriers
The popular tourist destination has had no coronavirus cases. Is that good luck—or bad testing?
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Afghan returnees after arriving from Iran Iran’s Shifting Afghan Alliances Don’t Fit Easy Narratives
Tehran’s goals are pragmatic—and may be in line with Washington’s.
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Anti-government demonstrators rally behind barbed wire. Lebanon Is Broken. So Are Its Protests.
The country’s protest movement knows what it’s against—but it never figured out how to achieve what it’s for.
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Seedlings dot the landscape near the Soviet-era Karen Demirchyan Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, in October 2019 during a tree planting event organized by the Armenian Tree Project to commemorate the Armenian genocide. Make Armenia Green Again
Can planting 10 million trees shore up the country’s borders and save its environment?
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Wallace Mazon holds a sign calling for the abolition of the Iowa caucuses outside the Iowa Democratic Party headquarters in Des Moines on Feb. 4. If Iowa Were in Africa, International Observers Would Be Crying Foul
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?
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with journalists in the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah on July 3, 2019. The Oslo Accords Are Dead. Should the Palestinian Authority Live On?
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.
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Taiwanese soldiers run through colored smoke during an exercise at a military base in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, on Jan. 15. Taiwan’s Military Is a Hollow Shell
The end of conscription has left the army critically undermanned.
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Workers at Youan Hospital in Beijing How to Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts
It may be too late to contain the new coronavirus. But we can safeguard the world against the next one.
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A woman wears a face mask as a preventative measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus disease Coronavirus Crisis Pushes States to Quarantine Online Information
Epidemics raise worrying questions about how to limit state power.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Duterte Terminates U.S. Defense Pact, Pleasing Trump but Few Others
Ending the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and the United States is a deeply unpopular move.
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Sinn Fein’s Donnchadh O Laoghaire Ireland’s Populists Are Not Really Populist
After decades of militant radicalism, Sinn Fein won last week’s elections by moving toward the mainstream.
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past an electoral billboard bearing a portrait of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2019. Has the Israeli Right Peaked?
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.
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A municipal worker wearing a medical face mask in Moscow Russia Knows Just Who to Blame for the Coronavirus: America
Conspiracy theories are all over state media, following past patterns of disinformation.
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world-maps-cold-war-geopolitics-social The End of History and the Last Map
Cartography and conflict in the post-Cold War world.
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A Mongolian woman walks along a road on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar on July 13, 2016. Living While Female in Mongolia
The country has some of the worst rates of sexual violence in Asia—and old attitudes are proving hard to change.
