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Until fairly recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping touted his zero-COVID policy as proof that authoritarian one-party states like China are ...

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Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old Lebanese-American charged with attempting to murder the British author Salman Rushdie, appears to have been acting ...

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According to a Pew Research Center survey in March of this year, 61% of Americans believe that abortion should be ...

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France is not the United States. Many liberals, including me, worried that Marine Le Pen might just win the French ...

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Ian Buruma Two days before the Normandy landings in June 1944, Charles de Gaulle demanded the right to govern France ...

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Ian Buruma Why would a US President in the last weeks of his administration want to start executing federal prisoners ...

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Ian Buruma In his quest for the secret of US democracy in the 1830s, the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville ...

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Ian Buruma Instead of using all the powers of the US federal government to limit the ravages of COVID-19, President ...

The shadow of Donald Trump, with trade and economic uncertainties linked to his return to the White House in January...

I n what appears to be a pro-incumbency mandate, the Mahayuti coalition led by the BJP swept the Maharashtra Assembly...

“India and Bangladesh share deep-rooted bonds of history, language, culture, and a multitude of other commonalities. The outstanding nature of...

Since its second term, the Modi government has retained top civil servants beyond retirement for ‘continuity in policymaking’. Weeks after...