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Who Owns the ‘Victorious Youth’?
There is widespread agreement, even in museums, that questionable pieces in collections should be returned. But returned to whom?
By Adam Kuper
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
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
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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
Narendra Modi is a diminished figure after a disappointing election showing that could imperil his visions for an intolerant Hindu state.
By Anjali Mody
Claudia Sheinbaum has shown she can take a pragmatic approach to crime.
By Ioan Grillo
There was no place for rogue militias in the Sudan we dreamed of.
By Dena Ibrahim
For all its singularity, Belgium tells a quintessentially European story.
By Anton Jäger
Israel is facing a stark choice about its future. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant represents a critical role in the path it takes.
By Dahlia Scheindlin
The country’s story of liberation has been both a symbol of hope and a burden. Now it’s time for reality.
By Lydia Polgreen
Neither female front-runner in Mexico’s presidential race has proposed a strong agenda to serve the women who put them where they are today.
By Cristina Rivera Garza
“Now is the moment for Britain to choose its future,” Rishi Sunak told an indifferent nation as water soaked into his suit.
By Sam Freedman
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The commissioner of UNRWA calls for an end to Israeli attacks, both physical and verbal, against its staff and buildings.
By Philippe Lazzarini
British voters are fed up with the Tories, and a change election seems inevitable. But Labour does not seem poised to capitalize on the moment.
By David Wallace-Wells
The armed services are not sized or equipped to deal with new global threats.
By Roger Wicker
The country is in the midst of another complex transformation.
By William Shoki
Russia’s election in 1996 is a cautionary tale for America.
By Mikhail Zygar
In Modi’s Hindu-nationalist India, Muslims have to deny who we are.
By Mohammad Ali
Americans have traded their faith in the American dream for pretty much everybody else’s sour, populist mood.
By David Brooks
Is 2024 the year that Iran finally decides it can no longer take chances with its security and races to build a nuclear bomb?
By John Ghazvinian
Speaker Mike Johnson should let the House vote on extending and expanding RECA, and our lawmakers should vote yes.
By W.J. Hennigan
He could convert the United States from a dominant economic and military power into something he purports to abhor — a global loser.
By Jacob Heilbrunn
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The generation on the cusp of taking power in Iran sees domestic oppression and foreign aggression as indispensable to the success of the revolution.
By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh
There is a disregard among Israeli soldiers for Palestinian lives, and we are seeing it in Gaza today.
By Avner Gvaryahu
The liberal arts are fading just when we need them most.
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Harun Küçük
The shooting of Slovakia’s prime minister comes with a backdrop of growing political polarization.
By Alena Krempaska
Things for Ukraine are likely to get worse before they get better.
By Michael Kofman and Rob Lee
Never before has it been so entwined with China.
By Alexander Gabuev
Gotham’s 400th birthday calls for a celebration worthy of the great metropolis it is.
By Kenneth T. Jackson
China’s economy has reached a dead end. Getting out will mean more trade friction with the United States.
By Anne Stevenson-Yang
In how the president made his announcement, he enabled Netanyahu to look like an innocent victim
By Thomas L. Friedman
Britain’s Conservative Party is in crisis.
By Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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As long as Iran is ruled by a government that puts ideology before its national interest, the Middle East will never know meaningful stability.
By Karim Sadjadpour
It does not have to be this way.
By Lea Ypi
Anxiety about China is making American policymakers react in paranoid, repressive ways.
By Rory Truex
The U.S. is losing its terror-fighting presence in Africa. That’s not a bad thing if Washington uses the development to help African governments deliver more to their citizens.
By Cameron Hudson
The plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda promises to be an exercise in cruelty.
By Daniel Trilling
With its TikTok bill, Congress sent a message to the world: You cannot disregard basic internet norms and expect to be treated like any other country.
By Tim Wu
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