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Wed, 19/11/2025 - 21:50
A Trumpian promise may be hard to deliver.
Wed, 19/11/2025 - 18:38
How some countries are quietly advancing progress.
Wed, 19/11/2025 - 18:16
Steve Witkoff reportedly hashed the details out with Putin’s envoy in Miami last month.
Wed, 19/11/2025 - 17:52
The only way to avoid war in Venezuela may be if its leader doesn’t fear leaving office.
Wed, 19/11/2025 - 17:05
Kirill Dmitriev is a prominent purveyor of the Kremlin’s line—but real power may lie elsewhere.
Tue, 18/11/2025 - 23:15
The new Japanese prime minister is unlikely to back down from recent comments.
Tue, 18/11/2025 - 22:56
A cheap and practical intervention, given at birth, could save lives in conflict zones and beyond.
Tue, 18/11/2025 - 22:55
The U.S. made a global order that it’s now obsessed with overthrowing.
Tue, 18/11/2025 - 22:50
The U.S. president whitewashed the Saudi crown prince’s poor human rights record while giving him a red-carpet welcome.
Tue, 18/11/2025 - 22:50
The U.S. president whitewashed the Saudi crown prince’s poor human rights record while giving him a red-carpet welcome.
Tue, 18/11/2025 - 20:32
Hoping blindly for a technological solution for climate change that may never come is no solution.
Tue, 18/11/2025 - 17:21
Whatever the administration says, the U.S. is not actually at war with nonstate actors
Tue, 18/11/2025 - 11:15
The EU’s promises of future membership have a very uncertain outcome.
Tue, 18/11/2025 - 10:52
Breaking out of their cycle of hope and distrust requires political imagination on both sides.
Tue, 18/11/2025 - 07:00
Land mines, and who planted them, have been an ongoing factor.
Mon, 17/11/2025 - 23:34
The ousted leader was found guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on last year’s student-led uprising.
Mon, 17/11/2025 - 21:58
The U.S. Development Finance Corporation was created to help alleviate global poverty. Trump has other ideas.
Mon, 17/11/2025 - 21:14
Baghdad is turning away from Tehran. Can Washington capitalize on it?
Mon, 17/11/2025 - 19:36
U.S. troops would be obliged to defend Riyadh.
Mon, 17/11/2025 - 17:28
The crown prince’s visit could result in a new U.S.-Saudi defense agreement.
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