In Venezuela, a Suspicious Win for the Strongmen
A declaration of victory by the Maduro regime is another case of how democracy is backsliding in Latin America.
By Michael Albertus
A declaration of victory by the Maduro regime is another case of how democracy is backsliding in Latin America.
By Michael Albertus
Organizers must reduce the event’s carbon footprint.
By Madeleine Orr
It is clear Venezuelans have chosen to oust President Maduro. Whether that will happen remains in question.
By María Corina Machado
China could seize control of a strategically vital waterway without firing a shot.
By Oriana Skylar Mastro
With Netanyahu’s visit, Congress can’t ignore its role in Gaza’s carnage.
By Megan K. Stack
Turkey’s four million stray dogs are inseparable from the idea of the country itself. But maybe not for much longer.
By Kaya Genc
The United States can support Venezuelan democracy by creating an offramp for President Nicolás Maduro.
By Roberto Patiño
This diminutive fish has been making other things taste great for millenniums.
By Christopher Beckman
The protests and political action of young Kenyans in recent weeks marks a seismic shift for the country.
By Carey Baraka
For many young Iranians, as long as an octogenarian cleric and his allies rule over their country, the country can’t be free.
By Holly Dagres
The U.S. national security adviser argues that America’s allies in NATO are pulling their weight and paying their fair share of the costs of a common defense.
By Jake Sullivan
Through a stunning act of collective responsibility, the far right has been stopped.
By David Broder
It’s essential that NATO members agree on how they see the war in Ukraine.
By Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina Wigura
It is a little early to celebrate this election as a triumph for the center.
By Rory Stewart
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
Chinese pride and triumphalism have given way to malaise in the post-Covid era.
By Gish Jen
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and his Liberal Party are facing increasing unpopularity in an era of right-wing ascendancy.
By Stephen Marche
Radical Christians are working to erase L.G.B.T.Q. visibility from schools and ultimately, South Korean society.
By Raphael Rashid
A visit to Ukraine and Russia would allow my son to see that his mother’s native language wasn’t a quirk of hers but something normal for millions of people.
By Sasha Vasilyuk
The new alliance structure Washington is pursuing in Asia won’t guarantee peace and stability — and may raise the risk of stumbling into a conflict.
By Mike M. Mochizuki and Michael D. Swaine
Moldova is a cautionary tale for Ukraine.
By Paula Erizanu
She has seen the deep state up close and knows what needs to be done.
By Tanya Gold
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Giorgia Meloni is the model for the continent’s far right.
By David Broder
In the last two weeks, the president worked to avoid an immediate disaster. But it’s his own policies that have set the region on its current dangerous trajectory.
By Trita Parsi
Both parties experience echoes of decades past.
By Ross Douthat
The return of Trump to the White House would be disastrous for the planet.
By Stephen Markley
He wants China to win the race to provide climate solutions and assume the global leadership that would come with it.
By Jacob Dreyer
The nuclear industry has a long history of failing to deliver on its promises.
By Stephanie Cooke
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