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The Future of the Liberal Order Is Conservative

A Strategy to Save the System

Jennifer Lind and William C. Wohlforth

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Will China Seize Taiwan?

Wishful Thinking in Beijing, Taipei, and Washington Could Spell War in 2019

Peter Gries and Tao Wang

The Importance of Elsewhere

In Defense of Cosmopolitanism

Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Trump’s Iraq Strategy Is Foolish

The Country Is Not a U.S. Outpost Against Iran

Michael Wahid Hanna and Thanassis Cambanis

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Why Nationalism Works

And Why It Isn’t Going Away

Andreas Wimmer

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This Is Your Brain on Nationalism

The Biology of Us and Them

Robert Sapolsky

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E Pluribus Unum?

The Fight Over Identity Politics

Stacey Y. Abrams; John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck; Jennifer A. Richeson; and Francis Fukuyama

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No Country for Strongmen

How India’s Democracy Constrains Modi

Ruchir Sharma

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How the Polish Left Could Make Its Comeback

Local Politics Is Breathing New Life Into the Fragmented Opposition

Marta Figlerowicz

Less Than Zero

Can Carbon-Removal Technologies Curb Climate Change?

Fred Krupp, Nathaniel Keohane, and Eric Pooley

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Imran Khan’s Failing Revolution

The Pakistani Populist Is Yet to Deliver

Madiha Afzal

Spotlight: Afghanistan

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The United States’ Perpetual War in Afghanistan

Why Long Wars No Longer Generate a Backlash at Home

Tanisha M. Fazal and Sarah Kreps

The Taliban’s Battle Plan

And Why It’s Unlikely to Succeed

Michael Semple

Is Afghanistan Ready for Peace?

How Great Powers Can End the War

Barnett R. Rubin

U.S. Wars Abroad Increase Inequality at Home

Who Foots the Bill for American Hegemony?

Rosella Cappella Zielinski

Is the Taliban Prepared to Make Peace?

Afghanistan Is Tired of War—But to End It Means Taking the Taliban’s Priorities Seriously

John Walsh

Iran’s Other Generation Gap, 40 Years On

Among the Revolutionary Faithful, the Young Seek Confrontation While Their Elders Embrace Change

Narges Bajoghli

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Is Far-Right Populism Gaining Ground in Spain?

What Vox’s Rise in Andalusia Means for Madrid

Omar G. Encarnación

Netanyahu’s Foreign Policy Is Bad for Israel

The Costs of Befriending Illiberal Leaders

Dahlia Scheindlin

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Feb 15, 2011

Protests Erupt in Benghazi

The Libyan people call for the resignation of leader Muammar al-Qaddafi.

David Kaye

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Send Chechens, Guns, and Money

Ramzan Kadyrov’s Imperial Ambitions

Neil Hauer

E Pluribus Unum?

The Fight Over Identity Politics

Stacey Y. Abrams; John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck; Jennifer A. Richeson; and Francis Fukuyama

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Netanyahu’s Referendum

What’s at Stake for the Israeli Prime Minister in the Early Election

Aluf Benn

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The Original Hidden Figures

Reviewed by Elaine Weiss

Elaine Weiss reviews Patricia Fara's account of British female scientists during World War I.

How South America Ceded the Field in Venezuela

Outside Powers Will Decide the Outcome in Caracas

Oliver Stuenkel

Does Technology Favor Tyranny?

Foreign Affairs Asks the Experts

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Is Huawei a Pawn in the Trade War?

The Politics of the Global Tech Race

Robert Williams

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