How Erdogan turned the Turkish courts into a political weapon
The Turkish 'justice' system targets critics with verdicts as random as they are outlandish.
History will cast a shadow over Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan
Biden must pray that the troops he is bringing home will never have to go back.
An ignored water crisis is at the center of the farmer protest in India
The chief reason for the perilous water crisis is the over-extraction of groundwater.
Biden takes the easy way out of Afghanistan. The likely result is disaster.
It will mean abandoning those Afghans who believed in building a democracy that guaranteed basic human rights.
The U.S. is fighting its way out of the pandemic, but a virus wildfire is spreading abroad
India and Brazil lead the way with out-of-control coronavirus spread.
Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal could be the first step to a Taliban takeover
Pulling out the last U.S. troops may send the country into a downward spiral.
The U.S. and Europe must be ready to stand up to any Russian aggression in Ukraine
Putin must understand there will be severe consequences if there’s further aggression against Ukraine.
Israel’s relentless attacks on Iran may endanger Biden’s diplomacy
The United States will have to put more energy into the Middle East as the Chinese threat only grows.
Israeli sabotage won’t stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Only the nuclear deal can do that.
Israeli sabotage can delay Iran’s nuclear program. But only diplomacy can stop it.
These are the victims of repression in Belarus
An Olympic swimmer, a punk singer, a journalist and a doctor are just some of those in the regime’s crosshairs.
A Salvadoran refugee was killed in Tulum. Mexico is responding with indifference.
The lack of clear and proactive public indignation over the death of Victoria Salazar has revealed a gap in Mexico’s moral character.
Putin is slowly murdering Alexei Navalny. Here’s how the U.S. can save him.
Sanctioning the oligarchs protecting the Russian president would be a good start.
How the pandemic turned German politics upside down
Covid-19 has undermined the country's cult of stability.
A new key to covid success: Not states but societies
Rule-observant societies and rule-breaking ones are bringing their strengths (and weaknesses) to the fight.
The wrong way to fight vaccine nationalism
Vaccine equity is a real problem, but waiving intellectual property rights isn’t the right solution.
Antony Blinken offers a window on how Biden’s foreign policy decisions will be made
You don’t sense a “doctrine” so much as a pragmatic mind-set.
I’m on hunger strike until the U.S. ends all support for the Saudi-led blockade against Yemen
My pain cannot amount to that of Yemenis under siege. I am starving, but I am not being starved.
Putin again threatens war with Ukraine. The West must be ready to respond.
The recent diplomatic flurry may not deter the Russian president.
The U.S. has very little to gain by overdemonizing China
The attacks against China in American foreign policy are trending toward dangerous groupthink.
My trial in Moscow this week was an exercise in absurdity
Putin's justice system makes Franz Kakfa look like an amateur.
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