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A Grand Bargain With Venezuela

American Force Won’t Dislodge Maduro, but American Diplomacy Might

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Francisco Rodríguez

How to Fix Free Trade

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Michael Pettis

The End of China’s Old Guard

For the past year, an increasing number of rumors about Chinese leader Xi Jinping have been swirling around Beijing. Some sources privately claim...

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Deng Yuwan

America’s Quasi Alliances

During his successful 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, Donald Trump assured voters that he would end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, perhaps even...

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Rebecca Lissner

A New Path to Middle East Security

On September 9, Israel shocked the world by bombing a villa in a residential neighborhood of Doha in an attempt to kill senior Hamas officials. It...

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Elizabeth Dent

Can Democracy Still Make a Comeback?

Six months before she died, in October 2021, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright published a memorable essay in Foreign Affairs, “The...

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Jane Harman

The Folly of India’s Illiberal Hegemony

In September 2025, tens of thousands of young protesters poured into the streets of Kathmandu and stormed Nepal’s Parliament. They were furious...

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Muhib Rahman

Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously

Both supporters and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump agree that the first year of his second term has been an extraordinarily disruptive one....

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