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Why is Putin silent on the capture of Maduro?

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Nina L. Khrushcheva

Why the challenge to Iran’s regime is different this time

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Vali Nasr

Japan is right to rethink its immigration approach

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Gearoid Reidy

Feminism’s failures and the secret to Takaichi’s success

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Waka Ikeda

Can Japan’s popular new leader beat the heat with a snap election?

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reportedly hates the summer. "It’s a state secret,” Koichi Hagiuda, a senior figure in the ruling Liberal...

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Gearoid Reidy

Silence won’t protect the Bank of Japan’s independence

In recent weeks, two seemingly unrelated developments have cast a revealing light on how central bank independence is understood in Japan. The...

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Kumiharu Shigehara

Canada undermines its own China engagement

The art of diplomacy with rising powers demands more than goodwill. It requires strategic literacy, carefully cultivated leverage and the...

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Stephen R. Nagy

Japan can keep calm and carry on decoupling from China

Tokyo has displayed admirable restraint in the face of Beijing’s outbursts over the past two months. When China signaled a 40% cut in tourists to...

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Gearoid Reidy

Simple reforms could help prevent the next ICE shooting

Hours after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good on a snowy Minnesota street, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he’d been worried just such...

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Erika D. Smith

Why Takaichi would call a snap election

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may have found her answer to the question of how she legislates despite minority control of the government: Get more...

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

The economic roots of Iran’s unrest

The protests that erupted in Tehran on December 28 and quickly spread across Iran were triggered by a specific grievance: the collapse of the...

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Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

The U.S. sphere of influence is bigger than it looks

There’s an enticing way to rationalize this month’s extraordinary events in Caracas. It means the return to Spheres of Influence, rather than a...

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John Authers

Japan can no longer afford strategic confusion

It is not too dramatic to say that Japan has only 12 years left to secure its future. By 2038, Chinese President Xi Jinping will be 85 years old....

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Taniguchi Tomohiko

Artificial intelligence, robots and Silicon Valley’s top-down socialism

At the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in November, Elon Musk sketched a future in which AI and humanoid robots will do almost all the work. Money, he...

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Noreena Hertz

Takaichi’s twin challenges: Economic growth and security

The administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has placed a “responsible yet proactive fiscal policy” at the center of its economic agenda,...

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Kazuto Suzuki

Wealth taxes don’t work no matter where they’re imposed

I was once on a tour in Provence that included the house where Nostradamus used to live, which features several windows that have been bricked over....

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Allison Schrager