Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in The New Yorker two months after 9/11. The tragedy re-engineered the West while imposing a huge cost on the rest of the world. Twenty-five
The stakes are high for President Joe Biden’s first debate of the 2024 race to the White House, which is set to take place on June 27. The election is anybody’s to
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that there has been “a dramatic drop” in weapons shipments from the United States for Israel’s war in Gaza over the past few months.
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Maybe I re-visited too many World War Two movies and TV series around the 80th anniversary of D-Day last month, but one of the first things that came to mind while I
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Washington is showing symptoms of a chronic case of “China anxiety,” as it leverages media and public opinion to disparage China’s development, using buzzwords like “China collapse,” “Peak China,” and “Chinese overcapacity.”
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The Deep State should have been alert five years ago when Candidate Joe Biden announced that he, if elected as president, was determined to make the Saudi rulers “pay the price, and
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Neocolonialism: Old threats in a new era In February 2024, a forum was held in Moscow for supporters of the fight against modern neocolonialism practices. This forum, called For Freedom of Nations,
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The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Group of 77 and China have jointly called for the immediate removal of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries purportedly sponsoring terrorism, as maintained by
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Recent reports have sparked global interest as Saudi Arabia, a pivotal player in global oil markets, has purportedly terminated its longstanding petrodollar arrangement with the United States. This development, widely discussed across
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Hamas’ response to a U.S.-backed ceasefire-for-hostages proposal included “numerous changes” to what was originally presented, some of which were unacceptable. Blinken told
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After a sharp increase in uncontrollable wildfires across the northern U.S. and Canada in recent decades, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Forest Service have been open to new approaches and ways to
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