A silver medalist from Ethiopia crosses his arms in protest—and draws attention to the woes of America’s counter-terrorism partner in the Horn of Africa.
American ideas about impending democratic transitions across the Middle East are almost always delusional fantasies, whether embraced by overconfident neocons in the Age of Bush or by overconfident liberal internationalists in the Age of Obama.
In the 1990s, the Clintons tried to help African American families get on a sustainable path to a middle class existence. A new study suggests the experiment has failed.
What could have triggered a trusted ally’s fall from grace? Putin’s paranoid fear of revolutions, heightened after the Turkish coup, is probably a large part of the answer.
Rumors swirl about forces trying to discredit Russia’s Prime Minister. It could be Kudrin, it could be the opposition—or it could be just a ploy to keep the people laughing.
With tensions rising, Putin appears to want to scrap Minsk 2 and work out a plan for Ukraine directly with the West, without Kyiv present at the talks.
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