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Xi Will Be Denied
Is Trump Taking The Gloves Off Against Beijing?

Despite his warm words toward Xi, President Trump seems to be gearing up for a much tougher trade approach to China.

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Border Skirmish
The Future of Northern Ireland: Brexit and EU Borders

The United Kingdom’s Leave vote is posing enormous, possibly intractable problems for both Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Follow the Money
The Corruption of Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The testimony of a Turkish banker in a federal court points to enormous corruption at the center of Turkish politics.

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The Tax Bill
The Cold War and the Welfare State

If you look hard enough, you can almost find ideological consistency in the Republicans’ breathtaking tax bill.

Continent in Crisis
Europe’s Wheel of Fortune Turns

Like it or not, change is coming to European institutions. The only question is what kind of change.

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The War That Never Ends
Once More, This Time with Feeling

Todd Gitlin’s retro-wishful thinking about the Vietnam antiwar movement.

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Moral Panics
Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live

Katherine Howe mines her Salem witch trial ancestors for material for her novels, but the dangers of witch hunts aren’t confined to the past.

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Policy Hazards
The Middle East’s Next Big Challenge: Nuclear Security

Nuclear power poses profound security threats to the Middle East—but not in the ways you might expect.

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News Analysis
The (Near) Future of Oil Lies in Moscow’s Hands

Russia holds all the leverage in talks to extend petrostate production cuts.

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State of the Union
Donald Trump: America’s First Post-White President

Trumpism is not a simple retread of the white supremacy of the past, but a new form of the self-destructive politics of ressentiment.

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