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Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences.
Trade and financial flows have fallen well below their peaks, and poorer countries will bear the brunt.
Not planning for the possibility of disintegration betrays a dangerous lack of imagination.
The Russian president got many things wrong about invading Ukraine—but not everything.
Why has it taken a war of conquest for experts to recognize Russia’s nature as a vast imperial enterprise?
Russia’s invasion has made Europeans more emotionally attached to the continent than ever before.
India’s geopolitical shift is inexorable, and membership in the G-7 would help bridge north-south divides.
Manila’s geopolitical shift is more than the Biden administration could have hoped for.
Government stimulus and greater exports can’t dig China’s economy out of a deep hole.
Washington’s long-held policy has outlived its usefulness.
African leaders must be more imaginative and proactive in pooling their efforts and setting the agenda.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hollowed out state institutions, placed loyalists in key positions, and enriched his cronies—paving the way for this tragedy.
The Israeli far right sees Washington’s refusal to get tough on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as a green light for ethnic cleansing.
The new president has a unique opportunity to address the biggest threat to his country’s democracy.
America’s remaining maskers are a living emblem of a lost war.
The sunglasses are a symbol of loyalty, persistence—and the U.S. president.
The naming conventions vary—but the strength and speed remain the same.
In the Booker Prize-winning “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” the past haunts a country racked by unresolved death.
The 18th-century Scottish economist has come to play a uniquely controversial role in U.S. political and economic life.
One is a fantasy with roots in World War II. The other boasts Spider-Man.
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A former U.S. ambassador, an Iran expert, a Libya expert, and a former U.K. Conservative Party advisor weigh in.
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