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Don’t Give Up on China’s Democracy Just Yet
Scholars are increasingly making the case for reviving modernization theory.
The Horror Inside the Salvadoran Prisons Where Trump Is Sending Migrants
Human rights organizations have gathered credible evidence of systematic corruption, torture, and killings.
Australia’s First Art Film
“Picnic at Hanging Rock” has kept audiences guessing for 50 years.
Into the Lions’ Den
A scorching legal thriller from Zambia.
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America Should Lead the Fight Against Global Energy Poverty
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China Is No Climate Savior
Middle East & Africa
The End of USAID Is an Opportunity for Africa
Europe
Deporting Ukrainian Refugees Weakens America
Americas
Are Trump’s Deportations to El Salvador Just the Beginning?
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Current Issue: Winter 2025
Archives
America Is Locked in a New Class War
Money and education no longer explain voting patterns.
Trump Is Ushering In a More Transactional World
Countries and companies with clout might thrive. The rest, not so much.
Updates: Trump’s Foreign-Policy Shifts
Reports and analysis from staff and contributors.
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Five laborers are seen as they tend to lettuce sprouts planted in rows in a large, neatly tilled field. The rows stretch away from the camera to the flat horizon, where they eventually meet a hazy blue sky. -
A U.S. Air Force flight carrying deported migrants arrives at Ramon Villeda Morales International Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Jan. 31. -
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange shortly before trading was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 16, 2020.
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Two women sit on either side of a wooden desk in a brightly-lit tent. One woman is seen from behind, resting her elbows on the desk and her chin in her hand. She faces the other woman, who wears a medical face mask as she writes something down. Piles of paperwork in colorful folders are scattered around the surface of the desk. -
Martine Biron, Quebec minister of international relations, pictured during the 10th European Summit of Regions and Cities of the European Union in Mons, Belgium, on March 18, 2024. -
A bright red screen large enough to take up an entire wall shows large images of Xi Jinping. People are seen in shadowed silhouette, backlit by the screen, as they mill about a museum exhibit.
Hollywood Has a New China Problem
‘Ne Zha 2’ shows audiences are growing tired of formulaic Western films.
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French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte leads the final assault by the Imperial Guard before his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in what is today Belgium, on June 18, 1815. -
Kenneth Roth, a man in his 60s with gray hair and glasses, tucks a piece of paper into the inside pocket of his suit jacket, a serious expression on his face as he looks down. -
Donated clothing to be shipped abroad is gathered by the Church World Service in Denver.
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The Periodic Table of States
The org chart for a post-Westphalian world.
The Cost of Ignoring Geopolitics
Like Napoleon and the Ming dynasty, Europe is paying the price for strategic blindness.
What I Got Wrong About Trump’s Second Term
I didn’t entirely see this coming. Here’s why.
Russia Is Only Winning Inside Trump’s Head
As Russians will tell you, the reality on the ground looks very, very different.
The Novels We’re Reading in March
From a killing in the West Bank to horror in a postapocalyptic convent.
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Hope: The Autobiography, Pope Francis, trans. Richard Dixon, Random House, 320 pp., $32, January 2025.
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A grid of 12 fiction book covers out in February 2025.
In Case You Missed It
A selection of paywall-free articles
America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up
Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences.
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An illustration shows the Statue of Liberty holding a torch with other hands alongside hers as she lifts the flame, also resembling laurel, into place on the edge of the United Nations laurel logo. -
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An illustration shows Russian President Vladimir Putin on a television set with spinning lines behind him for a story about Russia's TV propaganda.
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An illustration shows half faces of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin for a story about a ChiRussia alliance. -
A photo illustration shows Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden posing on pedestals atop the bipolar world order, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Russian President Vladamir Putin standing below on a gridded floor. -
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greet each other at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018.
Visual Stories
The Mood on the Front Line, Three Years On
Ukrainian troops watch with anxiety as the United States moves closer to talks with Russia over the war.
How Tourism Trapped Tibet
The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.
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