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Stock Market Panic
By Zachary Karabell
What Happens Next With Turkey's Refugee Crisis
By Ian Bremmer
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The Democrats Need a New Tune
It may sound crazy, but the Democrats are singing Trump’s tune. We need a different song. Sure, the two parties are miles apart on everything from healthcare to immigration. The consequences of a second Trump...
By Harry Boyte and Trygve Throntveit
March 6, 2020
Free Testing for Coronavirus
When Osmel Martinez Azcue returned to the US after a trip to China and developed a flu-like illness, he did exactly the right thing. He went to a hospital in Miami to get tested for...
By Gavin Yamey
March 5, 2020
Benjamin Netanyahu's Toxic Win in Israel Election
Hate won. Again. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, who will face a trial for charges of bribery later this month, has managed to get a significant lead in his third electoral showdown. It's not...
By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
March 5, 2020
Trump's Disgraceful Taliban Deal
There is a difference between peace and retreat. The Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban represents a full retreat. It’s an agreement that most Republicans would deplore if a Democrat president made the deal, and...
By David French
March 3, 2020
Supreme Court for the Rich
In 1983, the Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Raymond Dirks, an investment advisor who passed insider information on to his clients, who used it to make money. It seemed clear that using insider information...
By Adam Cohen
March 3, 2020
The Right Peace for Afghanistan
As we take the first major, halting steps toward a peace agreement in Afghanistan, all I can remember is how we got there in the first place. On 9/11, I was a newly promoted one-star...
By James Stavridis
March 2, 2020
A Stock Market Crash Was Coming, Coronavirus Was Just the Spark
After weeks of relative placidity about the global spread of the novel coronavirus, financial markets snapped to attention last week and plunged with dizzying speed. U.S. stocks lost nearly 12% and $3.5 trillion was erased...
By Zachary Karabell
March 2, 2020
The Violence Tearing Apart India
It takes a lot to overshadow a foreign visit by a sitting U.S. president. India managed the feat this week, as Delhi was plunged into violent chaos as protests over India’s controversial new citizenship law...
By Ian Bremmer
February 29, 2020
Ready For Peace with the Taliban
On September 26, 1996, the Taliban captured Kabul. I was a junior staffer at the Afghan Ministry of Defense. My job was mainly liaising with foreign and local media, international aid organizations and the small...
By Amrullah Saleh
February 28, 2020
Senate Sits on Gun Reform
August 31, 2019 began as a normal day. It was a normal day for a Texas trucker who was driving home from work. Same for a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, who was on...
By Shannon Watts
February 27, 2020
We Need to Defend America's Research and Science From Foreign Spying
As a Harvard physics student, I got to learn from some of the smartest minds on earth. My professors were also good people, and the department has a proud history both of great discovery and...
By Seth Moulton
February 27, 2020
Trump and Modi Share View of World
President Donald Trump is due to make the first ever visit by an American head of state to Ahmedabad, the biggest city in the western state of Gujarat. It is the state that Narendra Modi,...
February 23, 2020
What Happens Next with Europe’s New Regulation of Big Tech
Less than three months after being sworn into office, the cabinet of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen released on Wednesday ambitious plans for the E.U. to regulate Big Tech going forward, specifically when...
By Ian Bremmer
February 22, 2020
What Peace in Afghanistan Might Mean
Having fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I am often asked what I think distinguished the two wars from one another. The answer is imagination, and I believe this is the critical element upon which...
By Elliot Ackerman
February 21, 2020
Congresss Has Always Been Partisan
In the throes of the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War, Democrats in Congress repeatedly attacked Abraham Lincoln as a “tyrant” and even his fellow Republicans questioned his competence and investigated his generals....
By Fergus M. Bordewich
February 21, 2020
The Future of Hong Kong
In the early summer of 2016, for a single minute every night the facade of the tallest building in Hong Kong, the International Commerce Centre (ICC), transformed into a giant digital timer. Second by second,...
February 19, 2020
How Lincoln Healed a Divided America
Abraham Lincoln repeatedly tops polls as our greatest and most revered president. But few people thought so on March 4, 1865, when he took the oath of office for the second time. On that day,...
By Edward Achorn
February 16, 2020
What Happens Next in Ireland
Political drama in Britain and Ireland continues… but not because of Brexit (mercifully). Roughly a week after the UK officially left the EU, Ireland held elections that catapulted Sinn Fein from political periphery to possible...
By Ian Bremmer
February 14, 2020
Defense Budget Misses the Future of War
The massive 2021 Department of Defense budget that the White House sent to Congress clocks in at $740.5 billion, with $705.4 billion earmarked for the Pentagon – the remainder to the Department of Energy and...
By James Stavridis
February 13, 2020
A Chaplain on How to Talk About the Right to Die and Death With Patients
Martha Kay Nelson has had a long career in hospice work. Rather than choosing hospice work, she believes hospice work chose her. Her training was at Harvard Divinity School. She did a yearlong internship as...
By Diane Rehm
February 11, 2020
What Happens Next with America’s Electoral Legitimacy
It was bound to be an eventful week for U.S. politics, with the impeachment trial of Donald Trump wrapping up the same week as the State of the Union. We got all that drama and...
By Ian Bremmer
February 8, 2020
How Our Modern World Creates Outbreaks Like Coronavirus
“Everyone knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world,” observes Albert Camus in his novel The Plague. “Yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our...
By Mark Honigsbaum
February 7, 2020
Mitt Romney’s Honorable Stand Reaffirmed the Wisdom of Impeaching Trump
Wednesday, February 6 was supposed to be a moment of pure triumph for Donald Trump. The day after he delivered the State of the Union – and the same week that Democrats struggled to announce...
By David French
February 6, 2020
The Dangerous Idea at the Heart of Trump's Acquittal
We are moving towards a democracy driven by the market, not the rule of law
By Philip Bobbitt
February 5, 2020
Trump’s Acquittal Would Be a Dangerous Transfer of Power From Congress to the President
The central question built in to any form of government is how to control the government itself after we give it power over our lives. The Romans summed it up with a simple question, Quis...
By Angus King
February 4, 2020
Global Solidarity, Collaboration and Urgent Action Needed to Defeat the New Coronavirus Outbreak
Once in a very rare while, a single, serious challenge consumes the attention of the entire world. We are living through one such period today as countries and communities come together to end the new...
By Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
February 4, 2020
Why We Are So Ill-Prepared for a Possible Pandemic Like Coronavirus
We were surprised in 2002 when a new coronavirus called SARS emerged from southern China and spread to 17 countries, causing more than 8,000 disease cases and nearly 800 deaths. We were surprised in 2009...
By Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
February 4, 2020
The Pandemic of Xenophobia and Scapegoating
Even as public health experts race to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak, a potentially more fearsome and shadowy pandemic—aimed at uninfected people unjustly fingered as potential carriers—grows. Calls for bans on the movement of peoples...
By Sonia Shah
February 3, 2020
The Education Reform Movement Has Failed America. We Need Common Sense Solutions That Work.
The education reform movement that started with George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law is dead. It died because every strategy it imposed on the nation’s schools has failed. From Bush’s No Child Left...
By Diane Ravitch
February 1, 2020
President Trump's Peace Plan Is the Latest in a Century of Outrageous Deals for the Palestinians
Once again, a tawdry deal has been done over the heads of the Palestinians, in their absence, and ignoring their rights – indeed their very existence as a people. As with the Balfour Declaration of...
By Rashid Khalidi
January 31, 2020
Boko Haram Refugees Find Safety in Niger. But How Long Can the Country Remain a Safe Haven in the Sahel?
The gunshots began in the middle of the night late in 2018. Ali Bakara, a twenty-eight-year old mother of eight, was jolted awake. It was three o’clock in the morning in her village near Maiduguri,...
By Nicolas Niarchos
January 30, 2020
How the Trump Administration's Israel-Palestine Peace Plan Will Change the Middle East
Over the last two days, I received an exclusive early look at President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict. The effort was led by the president’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner....
By Ian Bremmer
January 28, 2020
'You Shall Never Be a Bystander.' How We Learn About the Holocaust When the Last Survivors Are Gone
On the morning of January 27th, 1945, the first Red Army soldier walked into Auschwitz death camp, and the 7,500 remaining prisoners knew they were finally free. More than 1.1 million people died in the...
By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
January 27, 2020
Kobe’s Basketball Greatness Made Him a Hero to So Many Kids. What Happens When a Child’s Hero Dies?
When I watched the coverage of Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s death, amidst the primary grief I felt for Kobe’s wife, his surviving children, and the people who knew him and loved him, there were a...
By David French
January 27, 2020
Do Morals Ever Matter in American Foreign Policy?
As the Middle East ferments and impeachment draws us into foreign policy, we are faced with a perennial question. Do morals matter, or are moral arguments just window dressing that presidents use to justify their...
By Joseph S. Nye Jr.
January 25, 2020
How Do We Remember Victims of Mass Murder? A Holocaust Survivor's Daughter on How She Honors Her Family
How to remember victims of mass murder who have no graves? For families whose members have survived genocide or other forms of mass murder, remembrance is private and visceral. They often have no body to...
By Helen Epstein
January 24, 2020
The Growing Threat to Free Speech Online
There are times when vitally important stories lurk behind the headlines. Yes, impeachment is historic and worth significant coverage, but it’s not the only important story. The recent threat of war with Iran merited every...
By David French
January 24, 2020
What a Landmark LGBTQ Case Reveals About Two Clashing Visions of America
This is not an essay about lynching. But the curious landmark case of Lawrence v. Texas made me think about it all the same. And not just because it was inflamed by two different kinds...
By Marlon James
January 23, 2020
What It's Like to Never Ever See Yourself on TV
a personal essay reflecting on being yellow in America in 2020 raising kids who are “Asian” but have not yet been to Asia why Asian-American men have never been and will never be real Americans...
By Charles Yu
January 21, 2020
What Happens Next With Russia's Politics
Russia has a new government! Well, technically. Very technically. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a number of constitutional changes that will be put to the Russian people in a referendum, leading the government of Prime...
By Ian Bremmer
January 17, 2020
Australia’s Bushfires Show the Wicked, Self-Destructive Idiocy of Climate Denialism Must Stop
'We have to urgently stop burning coal,' writes Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
By Malcolm Turnbull
January 15, 2020
After Soleimani Killing, War With Iran Will Likely Continue as It Has for Decades
In 1981, at the outset of the Iran-Iraq War, Qassem Soleimani witnessed his country’s first use of human wave-style tactics. That costly practice would become one of the hallmarks of a conflict that would claim...
By Elliot Ackerman
January 8, 2020
The Battle for India's Founding Ideals
They wore masks and carried sticks. On the evening of Jan. 5, a mob stormed into India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, one of the nation’s most prominent centers of learning and an institution long associated with...
By Madhav Khosla
January 6, 2020
The Top 10 Geopolitical Risks for the World in 2020
2020 will prove a tipping point moment in international politics. In recent decades, globalization has created opportunities, reduced poverty, and supported peace for billions of people. But with China and the US decoupling on technology, the...
By Ian Bremmer
January 6, 2020
Ross Perot's Forgotten Mission During the Vietnam War
The episode reveals a lot about him—and America at the time
By Richard Farley
January 5, 2020
President Trump's Bold, Justified Gamble in Killing Soleimani May Just Pay Off
When Donald Trump ordered the death of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, he played perhaps his strongest card in a weak strategic hand. He placed a bold bet that his strike would brush back the Iranian...
By David French
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