List of Leaders articles
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Rob Malley, former U.S. negotiator during the Iran nuclear program negotiations and current president and CEO of the International Crisis Group Biden Taps Obama Administration Diplomat as New Iran Envoy
Robert Malley, who has faced sharp criticisms from Republican lawmakers, will be tasked with trying to get Iran back to the negotiating table on its nuclear program.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks during the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in a virtual session in the capital Riyadh, on Jan. 28, 2021. How Saudi Arabia Gets Away With Murder
Investors flocking to Riyadh’s “Davos in the Desert” prove that nobody knows what accountability for Mohammed bin Salman would even mean.
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U.S. President Joe Biden greets Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry Why Biden Has a Better Shot at Saving the Climate Than Obama Did
He has a lot more nations and interest groups on his side, and this time the promise of millions of new clean jobs is real.
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U.S. President Joe Biden signs an executive order related to U.S. manufacturing at the White House in Washington on Jan. 25. Biden Should Dump the Trump Playbook on Trade With China
Washington should get back in the trade game and use it as leverage against Beijing.
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Then President-elect Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden step off their airplane after arriving at Joint Base Andrews the day before he was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States January 19, 2021 at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. Biden’s Biggest Foreign-Policy Headaches
The U.S.-Saudi relationship and increased Chinese pressure on Taiwan are just two of the and other vexing problems for the new president.
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Thousands of people gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to call for police and criminal justice reforms. Put Racial Justice at Center of the Biden-Harris Transition Plan
The new administration doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel—it can learn from South Africa’s experience with transitional justice.
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An Iranian woman wearing a protective mask walks past a mural painted on the outer walls of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, on Dec. 30, 2020. What a New Iran Nuclear Deal Really Requires
To get Washington’s Gulf partners on board, Biden needs an actual strategy for protecting them and ways to make them contribute to it.
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Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6. The Capitol Coup Attempt Was the Far-Right’s Opening Shot
Jan. 6 was a classic example of propaganda by the deed—a revolutionary approach favored by everyone from 19th-century anarchists to Osama bin Laden.
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Police detain a protester during a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny in Moscow on Jan. 23. Putin Has Learned From Belarus in Handling the Navalny Protests
The Russian regime has barely started to tap its vast toolkit for violence and intimidation.
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The suspended Twitter account of U.S. President Donald Trump appears on a laptop screen in San Anselmo, California, on Jan. 8. Taking Trump Down Has Exposed Social Media’s Inherent Contradictions
Capitalism is making decisions that democracy should.
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A souvenir shop displays Matryoshka dolls featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in Moscow on Dec. 3, 2019. You Can’t Blame Russia for Trump
America’s reality TV autocrat was a homegrown creation.
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, President Joe Biden's pick to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Biden’s U.N. Pick Assembles Team of Foreign-Policy Veterans
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is staffing her New York and Washington offices with a range of career and political foreign-policy hands with extensive experience in U.N. affairs.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin watches a military parade on Red Square in Moscow on June 24, 2020. Russia Is in Agony, but Putin’s Dictatorship Is Going Down
Garry Kasparov on why this weekend’s protests may be the beginning of the end of autocracy in Russia.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a welcome ceremony at the Russian military base in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Oct. 5, 2012. Navalny’s Bravery Is Unlikely to Shift Putin’s Entrenched Power
There’s no sign of defection from Russia’s security services, let alone the army.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a vaccination facility in the Israeli Arab city of Nazareth on Jan. 13. Israel’s Arabs May Help Netanyahu Avoid Trump’s Miserable Fate
Netanyahu is courting Arab voters in a bid to win the election, curry favor with Biden, save the Abraham Accords, and stay out of prison.
