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Analysis

The Biden Presidential Scorecard at 500 Days

George F. Will Published 28 May 2022

Come next Friday, the 500th day of his presidency, Joe Biden, gazing from the Oval Office toward flags surrounding the Washington Monument, might or might not…

Analysis

Sri Lanka Is an Omen

Mark Malloch-Brown Published 28 May 2022

To solve a global economic unwinding, the world must learn to focus on more than one crisis at a time. Many Western leaders are behaving as…

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Speech and Censorship

Usama Khilji Published 28 May 2022

PAKISTAN’S ranking fell a further 12 places on the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index released earlier this month. This has to be a point of…

Analysis

The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control

Ronald Brownstein Published 26 May 2022

The basic rules of American democracy provide a veto over national policy to a minority of the states. After each of the repeated mass shootings that…

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The Clash of Asia’s Titans

Brahma Chellaney Published 26 May 2022

With global attention focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine, China’s territorial expansionism in Asia—especially its expanding border conflict with India—has largely fallen off the international community’s…

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The Coming World Order

Marc Saxer Published 25 May 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended the world order—and with it the energy, production, distribution and finance systems. The war in Ukraine is part of the…

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Trump and Biden Let Afghanistan Collapse

Lynne O’Donnell Published 25 May 2022

The Taliban didn’t have to take over. But Washington made sure they would. The catastrophic collapse of the Afghan republic and the subsequent takeover of the…