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Britain’s Election Is Not the Centrist Triumph It Appears to Be
It is a little early to celebrate this election as a triumph for the center.
By Rory Stewart
It is a little early to celebrate this election as a triumph for the center.
By Rory Stewart
Russia and China have seized on last week’s painful presidential debate to push their narrative that America is in terminal decline.
By Sergey Radchenko
Keir Starmer is set to carry a deeply authoritarian impulse into government.
By Oliver Eagleton
The stakes have never been higher.
By Philippe Marlière
There is widespread agreement, even in museums, that questionable pieces in collections should be returned. But returned to whom?
By Adam Kuper
The international community must insist on reversing the restriction of Afghan women’s and girls’ rights and on women’s meaningful participation in decision making.
By Richard Bennett
We believe the prime minister is driving Israel downhill at an alarming speed, to the extent that we may eventually lose the country we love.
By David Harel, Tamir Pardo, Talia Sasson, Ehud Barak, Aaron Ciechanover and David Grossman
The modest campaign created an opening for today’s anti-L.G.B.T.Q. backlash.
By Omar G. Encarnación
The island’s power crisis illustrates the consequences of putting essential services in the hands of a private entity.
By Yarimar Bonilla
It is looking more and more like a project to universalize the un-universalizable.
By Christopher Caldwell
Invoking Nazis and pogroms in discussing the Hamas attacks is wrong and offensive and helps the Israeli government avoid responsibility for its failures.
By Jonathan Dekel-Chen
They are breaking the compact between ordinary people and those in whom power is vested.
By Martin Griffiths
“When you live in the past, the people around you hate you, don’t understand and don’t accept you,” Valentyna Odnoviu wrote.
By Frankie Mills
A peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine will stop the killing and in the long run make Ukraine better able to defend itself and democracy.
By A. Walter Dorn
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The U.S. Treasury secretary explains why America and its allies should unlock the value of Russian capital immobilized at the start of the war to give Ukraine the financing it needs.
By Janet L. Yellen
In calling snap elections, Emmanuel Macron has taken a dangerous gamble.
By Cole Stangler
A cease-fire deal in Gaza might halt a war between Israel and Hezbollah.
By Mairav Zonszein
Success isn’t an Instagrammable skyline.
By Philip Oldfield
Never has the country looked less like a leader and more like the head of a faction.
By Stephen Wertheim
The European Union’s democratic deficit is slowly beginning to evaporate.
By Caroline de Gruyter
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