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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.

Platform or Publisher?
The Tech Giants Must Be Reined In

Silicon Valley usurped the role of traditional news media, without assuming any accompanying social responsibilities.

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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.

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Outside the Box
Beyond a “Marshall Plan for Ukraine”

It’s time to think creatively about how to help Ukraine. Giving more money to an increasingly corrupt government is not working.

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French Cinema
Agnès Varda, In Search of Lost Time

The latest film from the Godmother of the French New Wave plays as a capstone to her career, a testament to her artistic spirit, and a symbolic passing of the torch to the next generation.

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Potemkin Committee Hearing
The Diplomat vs. the Lobbyist

A former U.S. congressman is leveling serious accusations against a U.S. diplomat on behalf of Viktor Orbán.

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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