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Mon, 26/02/2018 - 22:05
New leadership at Millennium Challenge Corporation comes under scrutiny after “disturbing” comments by a senior official and concerns over Trump’s pick to head the agency.
Mon, 26/02/2018 - 21:27
With Xi Jinping's great power comes great irresponsibility.
Mon, 26/02/2018 - 21:13
Xi Jinping's dictatorship isn't what the end of history was supposed to look like.
Mon, 26/02/2018 - 15:03
By Elias Groll, with Jenna McLaughlin and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian McMassacre? With a CNN report Thursday that President Donald Trump may be on the verge of firing National Security Adviser Lt. General H.R. McMaster, the three-star Army general might be heading for a new position back in the military. McMaster has been the target of attacks ...
Mon, 26/02/2018 - 13:39
Local lawyers are fighting to hold the Philippine government accountable. To win, they need international human rights groups to give them more help.
Sat, 24/02/2018 - 00:21
It's time for Americans to add a new Russian word to their strategic lexicon.
Fri, 23/02/2018 - 22:55
From an international perspective, the 45th president doesn't seem like a bolt from the blue.
Fri, 23/02/2018 - 22:23
FP’s former editor in chief makes her first appearance on The E.R.
Fri, 23/02/2018 - 21:39
They are among the institution's most powerful tools — heed not the critics.
Fri, 23/02/2018 - 18:02
America’s North Korea strategy shouldn’t be a partisan issue, but that hasn't stopped critics from distorting the problem.
Fri, 23/02/2018 - 16:43
If you want to form a more perfect union, in Syria or elsewhere, you can’t rely on men.
Thu, 22/02/2018 - 23:07
With the Islamic State on the brink of military defeat, the State Department is poised to eliminate the office charged with coordinating the fight.
Thu, 22/02/2018 - 22:29
More than a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, we’ve seen what appears to be a fundamental shift in U.S. policy toward Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Wed, 21/02/2018 - 21:21
Mandatory military conscription is the French equivalent of Donald Trump’s wall — a pet project that’s become a political albatross.
Wed, 21/02/2018 - 20:56
Italy’s most dangerous populists are the immigrant-hating Catholic fundamentalists of Forza Nuova.
Wed, 21/02/2018 - 19:47
Poor countries have borne the brunt of the refugee crisis. Tanzania’s refusal to bear the cost of a new U.N. program is a warning to the West.
Wed, 21/02/2018 - 19:42
The Eastern Mediterranean energy patch is hot — unfortunately, in more ways than one.
Wed, 21/02/2018 - 19:25
Despite White House promises and U.S. legal protections for religious minorities, Washington rejects appeal for asylum from more than 100 Iranian Christians.
Wed, 21/02/2018 - 15:01
The imagery agency wants its own “CIA World Factbook.”
Wed, 21/02/2018 - 13:00
There’s a very familiar method to the administration’s apparent regional madness.
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