the Global Magazine of News and Ideas
Updated: 1 week 5 days ago
Tue, 01/08/2023 - 23:33
The country’s wealth is stolen or wasted as murder skyrockets.
Tue, 01/08/2023 - 20:33
The image of starving Africans may score propaganda points for the West, but Russia’s suspension of the deal arguably does more harm to wealthier countries.
Tue, 01/08/2023 - 20:30
Spiraling violence in the northeastern state takes cues from the ruling party’s majoritarianism.
Tue, 01/08/2023 - 19:05
A forever war in Ukraine comes with almost limitless possibilities to stifle dissent.
Tue, 01/08/2023 - 19:04
Silicon Valley’s congressman on how to reset the U.S.-China relationship.
Mon, 24/07/2023 - 18:28
Changes in technology and antitrust laws are driving the strike by writers and actors.
Mon, 24/07/2023 - 18:27
Decoupling is seen as everything from a moral necessity to a U.S. imposition.
Mon, 24/07/2023 - 17:53
An entrenched culture of misogyny is keeping the country’s female lawyers away from the corridors of power.
Mon, 24/07/2023 - 16:42
Measures intended to punish autocrats are eroding the very Western order they were meant to preserve.
Mon, 24/07/2023 - 12:54
The trans-Atlantic alliance has made China a security priority.
Mon, 24/07/2023 - 12:53
It’s not just in NATO. It’s one of the alliance’s most confrontational members.
Sun, 23/07/2023 - 17:09
Karl Schlögel recreates a lost world of long queues and shared spaces.
Sun, 23/07/2023 - 16:00
Is economic war between the world’s two biggest economies inevitable?
Sun, 23/07/2023 - 15:09
A new history of Russia’s ruble highlights the reciprocal relationship between autocracy and monetary policy.
Sat, 22/07/2023 - 13:00
“Follow the Money” traces an economy in crisis.
Sat, 22/07/2023 - 12:00
The U.S. military’s admiration of a proto-fascist city-state is based on bad history.
Sat, 22/07/2023 - 01:00
India’s government is only now breaking its monthslong silence over the Manipur mob assault.
Fri, 21/07/2023 - 22:50
Boeing aircraft are still plying tourist routes from Moscow to Turkey, Egypt, and Thailand, and they’re refueling—and possibly getting repairs—en route.
Fri, 21/07/2023 - 22:45
Test yourself on the week of July 15: Panama’s former president is sentenced, tensions escalate in the Korean Peninsula, and Yevgeny Prigozhin rallies his troops.
Fri, 21/07/2023 - 22:43
Moscow used to bang shoes to get attention. Now it blows up grain warehouses.
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