Analysis
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South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks. Without Tutu and Mandela, Is South African Moral Exceptionalism Dead?
The country could still achieve genuine racial justice after its moral giants have left the stage—but don’t count on the ANC government to lead the way.
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Health care workers in Lagos, Nigeria 5 Reasons to Be Optimistic About 2022
Start the new year on a bright note: Here are five things to be excited about.
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People stand at the Monument to the Conquerors of Space on top of the National Cosmonautics museum in Moscow on Nov. 17. Why Russia Tested Its Anti-Satellite Weapon
If regulation of space weapons is coming, Putin wants to be ahead of the pack.
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Israeli ultra-nationalists during a demonstration in Jerusalem on March 16, 2008. Why Israel Hates Gaza
Israel’s leaders have always shown contempt for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip because their past—and ongoing presence—pose a direct challenge to Israel’s founding myth.
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People play video games in a game arcade in Beijing on Sept. 11. The Geopolitics of Video Games
China has taken an increasing interest in the fast-growing market. That’s bad news for gamers.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon gestures while mingling with passengers on a United Air Lines DC-10 commercial airliner enroute from Washington to Los Angeles on Dec. 26, 1973. The picture was made with an instantmatic camera by passenger 19-year-old passenger Julie Gilkey. AP Richard Nixon’s Last Christmas Trick
In 1973, a presidential flight stunt baffled everyone.
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden speak before signing the 21st Century Cures Act. Obama’s Democracy Forum Was Better Than Biden’s
If democratic survival is the great issue of our time, Biden’s team has to be more demanding and more ambitious.
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Putin inspects military drills Use Climate and Trade Policy to Counter Putin’s Playbook
Joint U.S.-EU carbon border fees could be much more damaging to Russia than sanctions.
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CIA headquarters Washington’s Secrecy Bubble Needs to Be Popped
Too much classification undermines the rule of law. Here’s how to fix a broken system.
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Then-Brexit negotiator David Frost leaves EU headquarters. Renegotiation Isn’t Disaster in Northern Ireland
A new deal can be worked out that keeps peace and trade intact.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks to a meeting with then-U.S. President Donald Trump in the Korean Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019. A Decade of the Kim Jong Un Doctrine
The North Korean dictator is just as brutal as his predecessors—but has instrumentalized that brutality to new ends.
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Iranian ultraconservative cleric and presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi gives a news conference after voting in the presidential election, at a polling station in the capital Tehran, on June 18, 2021. Iran Can’t Afford to Delay a Deal
There should be little doubt in Tehran about the urgent necessity of restoring the nuclear agreement.
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KKK protesters in Charlottesville America Drops the Ball on White Supremacist Terrorist Groups
Other countries are taking the lead in cracking down on U.S.-based groups.
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Customs officials inspect a huge quantity of narcotics seized in Peshawar, Pakistan bound for Saudi Arabia on June 19, 2003. Saudi Arabia Is the Middle East’s Drug Capital
Despite draconian laws, the region’s biggest economy is hooked on amphetamines.
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Display of Stalin's funeral at the Gulag Museum in Moscow. In Putin’s Russia, the Past Is Never Past
Memorial is the latest victim of Russia’s history wars.
