Essays
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Foreign Aid Cuts
Arrested Development

If the private sector replaces public sector leadership in international development, it will fragment U.S. influence, threaten sustainability, and weaken accountability.

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The #MeToo Moment
The Logic of Zero Tolerance

We must do what we can to stop sexual harassment. But what behavior separates intolerable or criminal behavior, including sexual harassment, from the mere jerk?

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Asian Tremors
The Seoul-Tokyo Split

Fraught relations between Japan and South Korea could upend Washington’s best-laid plans in Asia, to China’s advantage.

Jefferson and Adams
Finding the Founding Fathers

Gordon Wood illuminates the complex relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. (A transcript from our podcast.)

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The Middle East
The Bottomless Cynicism of Saudi Diplomacy

Saudi Arabia’s actions in Yemen expose the hypocrisy of its humanitarian pretensions at the United Nations and in other international forums.

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Revolutionary Revisionism
Ukraine’s Bolshevik Shadow

A hundred years after the revolution, Ukraine’s leaders are reshaping its historical legacy to their own political ends. A more honest historical reckoning is needed to move the country forward.

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Stalemate by Design
UNSC Resolution 242 at Fifty

Israel’s decisive military victory in the Six-Day War was followed by a deliberately ambiguous, precedent-defying resolution, with grave and unforeseen consequences for all parties involved.

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Mnangagwa for Mugabe
Hope Deferred for Zimbabwe

As Mugabe’s former right-hand man stands ready to succeed him, hopes for democratic change are colliding with a dire need for economic reform.

Protestant Reformation
The Revolution Was Printed

The Protestant Reformation leapt off the pages of Martin Luther’s broadsides. What pop-up notification is the internet giving today’s society?

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Reviews
Sideswiping the White-Collar Crime Wave

Amidst a rising tide of corporate crime in the United States, “white collar” criminal prosecutions and convictions are at their lowest levels in decades.

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