Argument
An expert’s point of view on a current event.
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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.
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Daenerys aims her dragon at King’s Landing in HBO's Game of Thrones. ‘Game of Thrones,’ War Crimes, and the American Conscience
Audience anger serves as a warning about indiscriminate violence.
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Supporters of Greece's far right Golden Dawn party protest against the construction of a mosque in central Athens on September 5, 2018. The Balkan Wars Created a Generation of Christian Terrorists
War radicalized the far-right — and nobody stopped them at home.
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A man reads a local newspaper on Oct. 24, 2001 in Andersontown in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. Paramilitaries Are Surging Again in Northern Ireland
And it’s not because of Brexit.
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Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement outside 10 Downing Street on May 24, 2019 in London, England. Theresa May Broke Britain
Her legacy is a mangled party in a mangled Parliament in a badly mangled country.
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A Burmese Rohingya girl gives a blood sample to test for malaria at a special clinic in Rakhine state on May 4, 2009. Good Health Supports Good Governance
Trump’s budget reopens old—and unnecessary—arguments about the efficacy of health aid.
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Former chairman of the Freedom Party FPOe Heinz-Christian Strache gives a press conference in Vienna on May 18, 2019. Corruption and Collusion Can’t Stop Austria’s Far-Right
Austrian nationalists were caught red-handed in an attempted foreign conspiracy—but the party’s future is as bright as ever.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech at an election rally ahead of Phase VI of India's general election in Allahabad on May 9. It’s Modi’s India Now
The prime minister returns to power, but after an ugly 2019 election season, the very nature of India’s democracy could be changing.
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An Iranian woman and child walk past a mural in downtown Tehran on April 27, 2016. Even Conservative Iranians Want Closer Ties to the United States
For most in the country, Washington isn’t the archenemy—at least for now.
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Sri Lankan protesters hold placards at a demonstration in Colombo on May 21, 2019. Sri Lanka’s Veil Ban Is Fueling Hate
Muslim women obeying new rules are still being assaulted and harassed.
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Actor Chen Xuedong, actor Zheng Kai, singer and actor Lu Han, actor Zhang Hanyu, actor and singer Andy Lau, actress Jing Tian, director Zhang Yimou, American actor Matt Damon, Chilean-born American actor Pedro Pascal, American actor Willem Dafoe, actor Eddie Peng, actor Lin Gengxin, singer and actor Wang Junkai attend the premiere of Zhang Yimou's film "The Great Wall" on December 6, 2016 in Beijing, China. Chinese Film Studios Are Blacklisting Americans
As the trade war escalates, producers are killing projects and sacking actors.
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A battle scene in HBO's Game of Thrones. IR Theory and ‘Game of Thrones’ Are Both Fantasies
They draw on the same narrow slice of European history—and get it wrong anyway.
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A French woman, Djamila Boutoutaou, attends her trial at the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad on April 17, 2018. She was sentenced to life in prison for belonging to the Islamic State. Iraq Brings the Islamic State to Justice
The country’s trials have been brutally efficient, but will the U.N. deem them fair?
