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From the year of elections to the year of governance

With half of the global population having already voted or preparing to do so in 2024, the “year of elections” has had a profound impact on...

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Adam Nelson And Kristen Sample

An Israel-Iran war could turn into a deadly nightmare

We are at a dangerous precipice in the Middle East. Richard Haass, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told me Wednesday that it...

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James Stavridis

The Shigeru Ishiba I personally know

Surpassing many people’s expectations — perhaps even his own — Shigeru Ishiba bested eight other candidates in the Liberal Democratic...

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Kuni Miyake

The Russian war economy’s days are numbered

Since 2014, and especially since 2022, Russia’s economy has been subjected to severe international sanctions. Yet assessments of their impact...

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Anders Åslund

Shigeru Ishiba’s tenure as prime minister could be short-lived

After a 15-day election campaign, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has elected Shigeru Ishiba as its president. Since the ruling party holds...

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Tomohiko Taniguchi

Japan shouldn’t work with the Taliban, not even to build schools

Since the Taliban seized power again in Kabul in August 2021, Afghans, particularly women and girls, have been subjected to some of the world’s...

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Sadiq Amini

Pete Rose fans are wrong: He's not worthy of the Hall of Fame

Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hits leader, spent more than a third of his life banned from Major League Baseball and the Baseball Hall of Fame....

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Adam Minter

Don’t take Japan's new leader literally. But should you take him seriously?

Well, that didn’t last long. We knew it would be hard to pin down the policies of newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. In his...

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Gearoid Reidy

A stimulus is good, but China still faces a hard slog

In little more than a week, China's efforts to crank up its economy have achieved something important: President Xi Jinping changed the...

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Daniel Moss

Toxic waste is at the mercy of climate change

Among Hurricane Helene’s roster of disasters is a storm surge that deluged a retired nuclear power plant in Florida. While radioactive material...

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Liam Denning

The China-Russia relationship once derided, now looks to endure

When Russian and Chinese jets violated Japanese airspace last month, many assumed that the actions were coordinated. A pillar of the “partnership...

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Brad Glosserman

We just got a wake-up call from the time before dinosaurs

Scientists have pieced together enough clues to Earth’s past climate to graph the average temperature from 485 million years ago to the present —...

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F.d. Flam

Tackling an international order in disarray

When Israel launched its counterattack against Hamas in October last year, United States President Joe Biden understood what was at stake....

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Sadamasa Oue

Iran’s missile salvo was yet another strategic blunder

With hindsight, Iran made a major strategic blunder back in April, when it fired some 300 missiles and drones at Israel, only to see virtually all...

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Marc Champion

Vietnam’s bamboo diplomacy has lessons for the Global South

In an age of great-power competition where countries like the United States, China and Russia jostle for geopolitical supremacy, middle powers from...

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Akhil Ramesh

The new prime minister puts together a ‘disunity Cabinet’

On Tuesday, the nation's newly minted prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, formed his first Cabinet, and like the Liberal Democratic Party leadership...

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

Japan’s new leader has barely the concept of a plan

When Shigeru Ishiba became the 65th Japanese prime minister on Tuesday, it represents a remarkable break with the recent past. All of the...

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