For autocratic regimes, increasing taxes could put their survival at risk.
messages.detailsYou can choose between a mask and a face shield, but you can’t choose nothing.
messages.detailsItaly shows us that controlling the pandemic will require reshaping family life in much of the world.
messages.detailsThe West has long stigmatized mask-wearing, unlike in many Asian countries, where those who do not wear masks during public-health crises are the ones who are stigmatized.
messages.detailsA nations response to disaster speaks to its strengths and to its dysfunctions.
messages.detailsPoor coverage of Britains withdrawal from the European Union risks creating a democratic deficit and storing up resentment for the future.
messages.detailsThe best one could say about Americas abandonment of the Kurds is that they should have known we would sell them out eventually.
messages.detailsTo understand where we are and where we are going, we must first understand where we have been. Trump became president with a set of deeply rooted visceral instincts about the world—hostility to alliances, skepticism of free trade, and support for authori
messages.detailsDespite spending billions of dollars on hardware, our regional partners do not have the capabilities we need.
messages.detailsAs the transatlantic alliance turns 70, Georgia—situated on Russia’s doorstep—desperately hopes to join.
messages.detailsEnvironmental activists pushing for clean water, restrictions on poaching, and action on climate change have faced prison—or worse.
messages.detailsAfter waking up with a searing pain that radiates down to my shoulders, I hunt for the culprit.
messages.detailsThe British prime minister must choose between politics and principle when it comes to pulling her country out of the European Union. Tony Blair’s experience offers a lesson.
messages.detailsEven if American troops come home in a timely fashion, they will likely return before long
messages.detailsA secret biography suggests that Abu Ali al-Anbari defined the group’s radical approach more than any other person.
messages.detailsA regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
messages.detailsAs the country ditches cash, criminals turn to stealing owls.
messages.detailsTelephone culture is disappearing.
messages.detailsSometimes the real promise of the system is simply the power to remove leaders.
messages.detailsMoqtada al-Sadr, who once led part of the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq, may pick the next prime minister.
messages.detailsThat has big implications for everyone else.
messages.detailsA story of ethnic and sectarian conflict, international connivance, and above all civilian suffering
messages.detailsThe current president has presided over a purge of liberal expression. And he is nearly guaranteed to win another term this week.
messages.detailsThe former president reticence in the Trump era is only hurting his party
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