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Troubled Waters
A South China Sea Change?

As Chinese construction and militarization proceed apace, the United States and its allies are ramping up their activity in the South China Sea.

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Mounting Case
The Alarming Story That Won’t Go Away

Despite all the diminishment, denial, and deflection, the evidence is mounting that Russian interference may have tipped the 2016 election.

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Europe's New Populists
A Government for Ungovernable Italy

After three months of negotiation, false starts, presidential vetoes, and market panics, Italy at last has a new, populist government—and its electorate expects radical change.

Necessary Myth Maintenance
Pioneers of the Next America

The road to renewal in America begins with re-learning how to tell the story of our shared national destiny.

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Letter from Madrid
Spanish Lawmakers Say ¡Basta! To Corruption

Our correspondent takes you outside the Spanish Parliament during the no-confidence vote against Mariano Rajoy’s government.

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Science Fiction
Terraforming Ourselves

What sort of world do we want to live in? Science fiction has answered the question in wildly different ways.

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Careless Words
Rights Talk, Redux

Almost three decades after Mary Ann Glendon’s Rights Talk, our political speech problem is worse than ever.

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R.I.P.
Pierre Hassner, 1933-2018

Polymath and public intellectual, Hassner was a towering figure in international relations.

A Fight Over Sanctions
The Great Oligarch Whitewash

A strange campaign is afoot to cleanse the reputations of several oligarchs targeted by the latest round of Russia sanctions. Don’t buy into it.

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Petrostate Politics
Do High Oil Prices Mean More International Conflict?

As oil prices reach three-year highs, history tells us that we should expect more interstate aggression.

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