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China’s over-reaction to a measured remark about Taiwan made by the Japanese prime minister is an attempt to move the Overton Window.
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China’s over-reaction to a measured remark about Taiwan made by the Japanese prime minister is an attempt to move the Overton Window.
It is difficult to overstate just how reactionary Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy is.
With the survival of Nicolas Maduro’s regime now uncertain, Iran and Hezbollah have much to lose in Caracas.
Bari Weiss’s eleventh-hour cancellation of a 60 Minutes exposé on migrants imprisoned in El Salvador raises troubling questions about editorial independence at CBS News.
The fate of the Weimar Republic stands as a warning of what happens when societies and their citizens indulge extremism.
Between the jihad of the “Hamas of Africa” and the new order of the Abraham Accords, the choice in Sudan should be clear.
The Chinese economy is a picture of mismanagement, wasted opportunities, and decline.
How activists at Médecins Sans Frontières shape Gaza disinformation.
The unpopular secretary of defence may not survive his latest scandal.
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
The British establishment is experiencing a schism over China policy and approval of a controversial new embassy.
At this year’s Global Free Speech Summit, there was a widespread sense that the US is at a perilous juncture.
Rusty Reno and the American postliberal revolt against the postwar consensus.
An impressive new biography of Jessica Mitford emphasises her sceptical and anti-authoritarian personality. But this was only half of the picture.
The world is not waiting for our utopian visions to make sense of it and order it. Liberal democracy works when it assumes as much.