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Human Rights & Corruption
Getting Tough with Aliyev

The Trump Administration should use the Magnitsky Act to punish human rights abuses and corruption in Azerbaijan.

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Technology
Cyberjitsu

Or how to “throw” your screen.

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A Continent in Flux
The Twilight of an Era in Europe

Four key currents are reshaping and redefining the European project, whether Europe’s leaders like it or not.

Political Pendulum
The New New Europe

Centrist, pro-EU parties are emerging in the Visegrad countries. Can they gain traction?

Counting Carbon
America’s Emissions Are Still Declining Under Trump

The EIA projects US energy-related greenhouse gas emissions will continue to fall this year.

European Disunion
Cracks Widen in Catalonia

In forcing Catalonia to clarify its intentions on independence, Madrid is chipping away at the separatists’ facade of unity.

A Gathering Storm
Is There a Crisis of Liberal Democracy?

We have entered a new era in which two great-power adversaries are threatening our democratic way of life with great subtlety and sophistication.

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Jazz
Monk at a Hundred

Thelonious Monk was a bebop pioneer who swiftly left that medium behind for a style of music entirely his own making.

Kleptocrats Take Note
The Precedent-Setting Trial in Paris

Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue of Equitorial Guinea is not only facing the prospect of forfeiting his ill-gotten wealth. He may also be looking at a prison term.

Development and Its Discontents
How Effective Is China’s Foreign Aid?

A new data dive offers mixed evidence, confirming some prevailing narratives and confounding others.

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