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What Syrians Want

A year after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria remains a country very much in transition. Much of its infrastructure is in tatters, and...

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Salma Al-Shami

America’s Magical Thinking About Ukraine

In August, U.S. President Donald Trump was disappointed when a meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce a...

03.12.2025 30

Sergey Radchenko

Trump’s Middle East Order

The Middle East is a place that most American presidents want to avoid. Yet inevitably, they find themselves mired in its quarrels. Despite...

03.12.2025 6

Ray Takeyh

The India Trump Made

Over the last decade, India has drawn ever closer to the United States, tentatively aligning itself with Washington as it continues to eschew...

02.12.2025 10

James Crabtree

Foreign Aid With Chinese Characteristics

Earlier this year, after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest...

02.12.2025 10

Alicia R. Chen

The West’s Last Chance

The world has changed more in the past four years than in the previous 30. Our news feeds brim with strife and tragedy. Russia bombards Ukraine,...

01.12.2025 100

Alexander Stubb

The Promise—and Limits—of a Free Press

With democracies under siege around the globe, it is tempting to see an independent press as freedom’s bulwark. In 2023, for instance, UN...

01.12.2025 1

Susan Chira

Are Palestinians Ready to Shed Hamas?

The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has offered the first real opening to end the two-year war in Gaza. The outlines of a peace process...

30.11.2025 10

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