The Battle for Eurasia
China, Russia, and their autocratic friends are leading another epic clash over the world’s largest landmass.
Athletes with “mission passports” are a symptom of the region’s erosion of citizenship rights.
From Equatorial Guinea’s leverage over Washington to Qatar’s scandal in Brussels, small resource-rich states are flexing their diplomatic muscle.
The World Cup is ending, but trouble is far from over for the families of guest workers.
Protests at the World Cup are basically meaningless on the ground, where a conflict exists that has no solution.
Natural gas has made Doha wildly prosperous, but can it last in the era of climate change?
Plus: What does artificial intelligence mean for labor markets?
Off the playing field, Iran’s protests and ongoing uranium enrichment have heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran.
Migrant workers from South Asia and Africa have suffered for years under the Gulf nation’s kafala system. They deserve compensation for wage theft, injuries, and death.
Critics of the World Cup host nation overlook the reforms the government has undertaken.
A soccer-loving nation is isolated from the global sport.
Shipping workers abroad helps the North Korean leader evade sanctions and finance his nuclear weapons.
Media liberalization would allow journalists to report on the country’s labor reforms from within rather than imposing a jaded narrative from without.
As the United States leaves Afghanistan, the question of troops in the Middle East to support the Afghan mission looms large.
Efforts at regional reconciliation have done nothing to address the core differences that divide Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.
It probably won’t work out well for either party.
Why Biden could lose the left, the peril of persuasion in the Big Tech age, and old rivals join forces in Kashmir.