Argument
An expert’s point of view on a current event.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Masters of Disasters?
The World Humanitarian Summit won’t solve the refugee crisis, but it’s an important first step to solving the really big problems.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The State Department Has a Diversity Problem
Despite decades of attempts to make the Foreign Service look more like the real America, it’s still pretty much white, male, and Yale.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Defense of Denmark
With right-wing parties on the rise in Sweden and Germany, the restrictive immigration policies of cold-hearted Copenhagen are beginning to look awfully sensible.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Shifty Linguistics of ‘Capital’
Banks and financial institutions are playing fast and loose with what constitutes “cash on hand” in case of a crisis. But there’s an even better phrase for this: recipe for disaster.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Bandits’ Banker
David Cameron is right that Nigeria is “fantastically corrupt.” He just forgot to mention that Britain is making it worse.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The U.N.’s World Humanitarian Summit Is a Total Mess
The world urgently needs a new aid architecture to grapple with a massive, global refugee crisis. But this gathering in Istanbul could do more harm than good.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Is Not the Time to Ease Up on Burma
Southeast Asia’s newest democracy has made a lot of progress, but some sanctions should stay.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All Hail Queen Banerjee
How the chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal went from being the people’s savior to the people’s tyrant.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How the War on Terror Failed Yemen
The West decided to make fighting al Qaeda its top priority — and only ended up making things worse.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Making Life Hard for Russia’s Robber Barons
Corruption in the post-Soviet world is seeping into the West. Here's a new way to push back.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Happens When You Replace a Just War With a Just Peace
Can the Catholic Church put an end to centuries of sanctioning war, and start promoting peace instead?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What ISIS Women Want
Western women who join the Islamic State aren’t victims who've been groomed or seduced by men. They’re committed jihadis in their own right.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All the President’s Men
Why President Poroshenko’s latest power grab shows that the reform process in Ukraine is stalling.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Putsch With a Pretty Face
Austria’s likely next president is a handsome, soft-spoken former engineer. He’s also a far-right, racist, xenophobe.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is China Returning to the Madness of Mao’s Cultural Revolution?
There are disturbing similarities between the authoritarianism and thought control of one of the most awful periods of modern history and Xi's China today.
