The most important thing that Putin experienced in East Germany was the spontaneous unraveling of the German Democratic Republic.
Now, in 2022, Russia has turned into a full-fledged, personal autocracy.
“Apartheid” is used emotionally when it comes to treatment of Palestinians, but increasingly it also has analytical usefulness.
The shared values and interests that have bonded the U.S.-Israel relationship will continue to fray, and the bipartisanship critical to a healthy U.S.-Israel relationship will erode as Israel becomes an intensely partisan issue in U.S. politics.
Lula has campaigned on the promise to bring deforestation levels in the Amazon down to zero. The question is whether he can in fact deliver. Brazil has developed an addiction to deforestation. In order to break it, the incoming president will have to muster all the support he can find.
Large percentages of Americans are fantasizing about secession and cosplaying at warfare — but these fantasy worlds can become real. It is time to break this fever dream, and demand that politicians, friends, businesses and houses of worship come together against political violence.
In an interview, Michael Vatikiotis discusses the Levant’s lost cosmopolitanism and how it influenced his own family.
It’s difficult to discern any real growth in the influence of the hardliners. They are trying to push Putin down a narrow corridor of escalation, but there are no signs that the president is actually listening to them.
Egypt’s path toward playing an international role on climate change will encounter two significant stumbling blocks.
It’s safe to say as Israel’s 75th anniversary approaches next year, a Netanyahu-led right-wing coalition won’t bring the country any closer to tackling the domestic and foreign policy challenges it faces and will almost certainly make them worse.