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The Canadian leader’s Davos speech is a masterclass in realism—and an overdue admission of hypocrisy.

Trump’s “Board of Peace” is neither an alternative to the U. N. nor a harmless vanity project but a threat to international cooperation.

Fearmongering about “narco-terrorism” was deployed to oust Maduro. In reality, it was always about capturing Venezuela’s oil.

The U. S. president followed up a concerning speech with a confusing announcement.

Trump’s Greenland spectacle has liberal-minded Americans rooting for the other guy.

The commentariat persists in misrepresenting the U. S. president and his actions.

Economy Minister Nir Barkat: “We’ll do better business in places that want us. ”

Nearly one year on, one of the biggest U. S. defense proposals remains little more than a concept.

As paramilitaries tear through their already devastated province, self-defense fighters in North Darfur have taken up arms to defend their homes.

The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.

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The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.

The science of gemstones has always been intertwined with their value as luxury items.

Universities, law firms, and news media have already been targeted by the administration. As the Justice Department pushes to investigate the Open Society Foundations, it seems that philanthropies that support critical voices may be next.

A new life of Gertrude Stein treats her as a philosopher of language to trust, not explain—and gathers force from archival discoveries and intriguing plots of her reception and reputation.

It is a problem of organization, angelsIn their syndicates look down, elitesHave always looked down on us, she said, But if everyone refuses to

About 26 billion chickens occupy Earth, but apart from the lucky ones in backyards, most are condemned to the hellscape that is industrial farming.

The young radicals who ousted the country’s authoritarian prime minister have so far failed to implement the democratic reforms they promised. Will elections in February correct their course?

Can Igor Levit restore classical music’s claim to cultural and political authority, or is it irrevocably lost?

At the turn of the twentieth century, a Gothic fever swept Europe as artists searched for meaning in a lost age.