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Recent events in Nicaragua have caused stirrings of unease among many of Ortega's previously loyal US supporters, and in some cases, strident criticism.
The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan returns those nations willing to fight evil to their couches, where they can sigh in safety.
Challenging China across the technological landscape requires a mammoth effort.
Hong Kong’s political culture is being dismantled.
The logic of making Iran’s nuclear program less dangerous via the JCPOA agreement while leaning on the FBI to ignore the crimes of the smugglers that made Iran’s nuclear program so dangerous remains hard to fathom.
Lost in much of the fretting (or boasting) about American declinism is the massive lead the American economy continues to hold over China, despite four decades of rapid growth for the latter.
The Congo has a way of putting first-world prophecies of climate apocalypse into perspective.
Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before.
What if feeding the hungry creates more hungry people to feed?
Western leaders who claim to be progressive, compassionate or 'feminist' are placed in awkward situations when the atrocities of their ally are broadcast on a weekly, almost daily basis.