Argument
An expert’s point of view on a current event.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Chance for Change in the New Thailand
Now that the king is gone, can Thailand’s opposition come together to challenge the ruling military junta?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 East Asia Will Take Trump’s Nuclear Talk Literally and Seriously
Washington has always managed to keep Tokyo and Seoul from pursuing nuclear ambitions, but a blustering U.S. president could change that in months.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Shiite Militias Are Crashing the Mosul Offensive
Pro-Iran militias are looking to settle an old grudge in one of the Islamic State's strongholds in northern Iraq.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Everyone in Europe Needs to Take a Deep, Calming Breath
We don't yet know how the president-elect will behave in office. Meanwhile, the present state of hysteria could make things worse.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Romanian People Power Took On Mining and Corruption
The controversial mining project seemed like a done deal — but the Romanian people weren't going down without a fight.
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Indonesian murder suspect Jessica Kumala Wongso (C) sits on trial at the Central Jakarta court on October 5, 2016. Indonesian prosecutors demanded October 5 that a woman accused of murdering her friend by slipping cyanide into her coffee spend 20 years behind bars for the high-profile case. Jessica Kumala Wongso, an Australian permanent resident, denies the premeditated murder of college friend Wayan Mirna Salihin, who collapsed and died after drinking the coffee at an upmarket Jakarta cafe in January. / AFP / BAY ISMOYO (Photo credit should read BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) Indonesia’s Murder Melodrama Has The Whole Country Watching
The country's elite think a young woman convicted of poisoning her friend is a victim, but ordinary Indonesians have cast her as a villain.
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trumplister Trump’s Syria Strategy Would Be a Disaster
The president-elect wants to ally with Assad and Russia to fight the Islamic State – but he’s going to end up empowering extremists and causing chaos across the Middle East.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Enough Hysterics. Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Isn’t Reckless or Radical.
Despite the hand-wringing of the Trumpophobes, there’s a lot of rationality and realism behind the president-elect’s evolving strategy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How President Trump Might Radically Rethink U.S. Nuclear Policy
Worried about Donald Trump having his finger on the nuclear button? Don’t be, yet. His penchant for upsetting the status quo could be just what we need.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Barack and Angela’s Tragic Romance
The American president and the German chancellor will share a legacy as long-term thinkers, advocates of openness — and, perhaps, as the last of their kind.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Social Media Helps Dictators
It’s been hailed as “liberation technology.” But it has a darker side.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The End of the End of History
Donald Trump has restored American politics to its default setting — a fight over identity, morality, and religion.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Israel Prepares for the Age of Trump
Right-wingers are euphoric, hoping the president-elect will preside over the death of the two-state solution. But Netanyahu seems to know better.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Attention, U.S. Allies: This Is Not a Drill
America's traditional partners have to start thinking of ways to bargain with, and appease, a potentially hostile U.S. president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Korea’s Nostalgia for Dictatorship Has (Mostly) Predictable Results
How fond memories of authoritarianism fueled the democratic rise of a deluded and corrupt president.
