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Congress must stop war by mission creep

Congress must stop war by mission creep

As in Venezuela last month, as in Iraq in 2003 — as in so many places for thousands of years — and as appears to be unfolding in Iran now, the...

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Andreas Kluth

After a historic vote, can Bangladeshis rise to the occasion?

After a historic vote, can Bangladeshis rise to the occasion?

On a day that will be long remembered, Bangladesh’s interim leader, the 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, stepped down Monday...

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Salil Tripathi

U.S. top justices’ ruling on tariffs marks a turning point

U.S. top justices’ ruling on tariffs marks a turning point

It took almost a decade, but Chief Justice John Roberts and the Supreme Court finally found a way to stand up to President Donald Trump’s executive...

yesterday 30

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Noah Feldman

The theater of the absurd that is India vs. Pakistan cricket

The theater of the absurd that is India vs. Pakistan cricket

If you’re looking for the most politicized international sport, the sport most ridden with the visceral furies that pit nation against nation, look...

yesterday 30

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Tunku Varadarajan

In a fragmented world, the OECD matters more than ever

In a fragmented world, the OECD matters more than ever

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio toned down the Trump administration’s criticisms of its European allies at the recent Munich Security Conference...

yesterday 30

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Kumiharu Shigehara

Silver’s surge suggests a brighter future for solar

Silver’s surge suggests a brighter future for solar

Did we just pass "peak solar"? That’s the claim now circulating among many analysts. Hitting net zero will require 630 gigawatts of panels...

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David Fickling

American allies ask, without shared values, why not China?

20.02.2026 10

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Brad Glosserman

Give everyone in Japan a subscription to Claude

20.02.2026 20

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Gearoid Reidy

Debunking the myth of Japanese militarism

20.02.2026 20

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

Stability as strategy: Japan’s moment for global leadership

20.02.2026 20

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Christina L. Davis

In a new Cold War, Japan-U.S. ties grow in importance

20.02.2026 20

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Stephen R. Nagy

The black market for Russian and Iranian oil is in trouble

18.02.2026 20

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Javier Blas

Putin has weaponized the peace talks. The U.S. can stop him

18.02.2026 20

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Marc Champion

Lessons for Japan’s scientific community from Trump’s America

18.02.2026 20

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Yuko Kakazu

Time for Takaichi to tackle Japan’s political taboos

18.02.2026 20

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Edo Naito

Musk is wrong about AI and retirement: You still need to save.

18.02.2026 20

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Allison Schrager

Trump’s trade truce won’t restore the U.S.-India relationship

17.02.2026 50

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Brahma Chellaney

Japan’s inbound tourism booms as outbound travel lags

17.02.2026 70

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Peter Chai

Cuba is home alone in Latin America

17.02.2026 50

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Why is everyone so self-righteous?

17.02.2026 70

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Steven Sloman

Trump is a lot like Kaiser Wilhelm: vanity itself

17.02.2026 40

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Max Hastings

Sanae Takaichi is not who you think she is

17.02.2026 50

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Gearoid Reidy

The trouble with winning big for Takaichi and the LDP

17.02.2026 90

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

What Trump wants from Russia

17.02.2026 40

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Ana Palacio

Why the U.S. let the New START arms control treaty die

16.02.2026 20

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Stephen Holmes

Sanae Takaichi is not who you think she is

16.02.2026 40

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Gearoid Reidy

China’s population rebound faces structural limits

16.02.2026 30

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Yi Fuxian

What Trump wants from Russia

16.02.2026 30

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Ana Palacio

Nothing ‘unexpected’ about the left’s election blowout

15.02.2026 250

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Kuni Miyake

Trump is a lot like Kaiser Wilhelm: vanity itself

15.02.2026 50

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Max Hastings

Britain needs so much more than a new prime minister

15.02.2026 250

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Adrian Wooldridge

Most in Asia want a stronger Japanese security presence — except for China

12.02.2026 20

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Karishma Vaswani

Epstein saga confirms fears of a class above the law

12.02.2026 30

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Brad Glosserman

Sack a British prince? Easy. Fire a U.K. lord? Not so much.

11.02.2026 30

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Matthew Brooker

Challenges for Japan during the U.S.-China ‘truce’

11.02.2026 30

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Naoko Eto

Japan’s youth are quietly securing their nation’s future

10.02.2026 30

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Waka Ikeda

Takaichi’s big win: A major victory for hard-nosed realism

10.02.2026 50

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Stephen R. Nagy

Why Asia can’t undo decades of falling fertility rates

10.02.2026 40

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Daniel Moss

U.S. President Donald Trump is no game theorist

10.02.2026 30

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Koichi Hamada

The coming crypto apocalypse

10.02.2026 80

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Nouriel Roubini

Trump has killed American deterrence

09.02.2026 40

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Stephen Holmes

South Carolina’s measles milestone is everyone’s problem

09.02.2026 60

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Lisa Jarvis

The problem with making every election an existential threat

09.02.2026 70

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David M. Drucker

Takaichi’s victory holds a foreign-policy lesson for the U.S.

09.02.2026 40

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Chris Estep

Five key takeaways from Takaichi’s landslide victory

09.02.2026 40

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

New world order or bust in the age of artificial intelligence

08.02.2026 40

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Margrethe Vestager

Starmer is facing the final curtain as British prime minister

08.02.2026 40

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Martin Ivens

India’s dwindling Maoist insurgency

06.02.2026 50

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Shashi Tharoor

On Iran, U.S. needs a little more data and a lot less hubris

06.02.2026 40

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Marc Champion

Memo to middle powers: Time for a reality check

06.02.2026 50

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Stephen R. Nagy