Argument
An expert’s point of view on a current event.
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Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrives at the Foreign Office on July 15, 2016 in London. There’s Nothing Behind Boris Johnson’s Clown Mask
A brief survey of the likely future U.K. prime minister’s very long—and very thin—resume.
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Adam Michnik, a prominent communist-era dissident who is now editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's leading liberal newspaper, is pictured in his newspaper's office on Feb. 23, 2018 in Warsaw. Poland’s Government Is Systematically Silencing Opposition Voices
Adam Michnik was a hero of the anti-communist struggle. Now his renowned newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, is under attack from a ruling party that refuses to tolerate dissent.
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A photograph taken in Melbourne on May 8 shows posters in a butcher's shop for Labor Party candidate Jennifer Yang and Liberal Party candidate Gladys Liu who competed in the May 18 election for the outer Melbourne electorate of Chisholm, where one in five households speak either Mandarin or Cantonese. Chinese Australians Are Not a Fifth Column
As tensions grow and Beijing seeks closer ties with the Chinese diaspora, Australians are becoming increasingly—and unnecessarily—suspicious of their fellow citizens.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's senior advisor, in Jerusalem on May 30. Trump Has Misdiagnosed the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The White House’s economic plan for Gaza and the West Bank should invite skepticism.
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Pakistani naval personnel stand guard near a ship at the Gwadar port on Nov. 13, 2016. Will Balochistan Blow Up China’s Belt and Road?
Violence in the Pakistani province is on the rise—and now Chinese nationals are the target.
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A poster for The Monroe Doctrine, a 1939 film starring Charles Waldron as James Monroe. Let the Monroe Doctrine Die
The Trump administration is committing national security malpractice in Latin America by resurrecting a policy that has outlived its purpose.
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Supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gesture as they participate in a rally for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad, India on on May 26, 2019. Nationalism Won’t Solve India’s Job Crisis
But Modi’s new power might just make critical reforms possible.
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South Korean protesters sit near a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing former "comfort women", who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, during a weekly anti-Japanese demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on November 21, 2018. Tokyo Keeps Defending World War II Atrocities
Japan's legal excuses over slave labor are weak at best.
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An anti-abortion poster showing a painting of the Virgin Mary on the Manila building of the Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic organisation, on May 19, 2014. Manila’s Abortion Ban Is Killing Women
Roughly 1,000 women in the Philippines die every year from lack of safe terminations. Others go to jail.
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The drill ship Ensco DS-7 in Limassol, Cyprus, on Feb. 28. Gas for Peace
A virtual gas hub could create real cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Emmanuel Macron speaks to the press as he leaves after a European Union (EU) summit at EU Headquarters in Brussels on May 28. France Lives in Macron’s World Now
The French president has started the political revolution he always wanted—and the outcome is dangerously uncertain.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 8. Turkey and Russia are Bitter Frenemies
The United States doesn’t need to fear their partnership. It will crumble soon enough.
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Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, pose for a photo with their newborn baby son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London on May 8, 2019. Archie Windsor Isn’t the Symbol You Think He Is
The newest royal baby represents his country's future identity: not multicultural, but overwhelmingly mixed-race and entirely British.
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An Indian resident reads a newspaper with news of the election victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Chennai on May 24. The Modi Mystery
Poor economic performance should have hurt the prime minister at the polls. Instead, appeals to nationalism won him the vote.
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BJP party supporters celebrate electoral victory on May 23, 2019 in Pune, India. Modi’s Message Was Simple: Hindus First
Bad times in India couldn't dent the BJP's juggernaut.
