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When Time Stopped Forever

When Time Stopped Forever When Time Stopped Forever

Han Kang’s new novel mines the violent past and uncertain future of South Korean politics.

Feb 22, 2017 / Books & the Arts / E. Tammy Kim

Senator John McCain at Munich Security Conference

McCain Talks Tough as the War in Ukraine Continues Without End McCain Talks Tough as the War in Ukraine Continues Without End

John McCain and Lindsey Graham have been urging Ukrainian soldiers to break the Minsk cease-fire agreement.

Feb 21, 2017 / James Carden

Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders in Cleveland

Why the Dutch Are Drawn to Right-Wing Populist Geert Wilders Why the Dutch Are Drawn to Right-Wing Populist Geert Wilders

He’s among the most radical of the new-right politicians in Europe—and he’s poised to win the March elections.

Feb 21, 2017 / Sebastiaan Faber

Trump’s Middle East ‘Deal’ Leaves Out One Vital Player: Palestinians.

Trump’s Middle East ‘Deal’ Leaves Out One Vital Player: Palestinians. Trump’s Middle East ‘Deal’ Leaves Out One Vital Player: Palestinians.

In plotting a decidedly lopsided “one-state solution,” Trump and Netanyahu are following an old and exclusionary script. 

Feb 21, 2017 / Rashid Khalidi

US soldier in Afghanistan

This US Military Officer Explains Why America’s Middle East Wars Have Been Utter Failures This US Military Officer Explains Why America’s Middle East Wars Have Been Utter Failures

Hint: The foundational narrative is the problem.

Feb 21, 2017 / Danny Sjursen

Flynn at White House

Neo-McCarthyite Furor Around Russia Is Counterproductive Neo-McCarthyite Furor Around Russia Is Counterproductive

Common sense is getting lost in the frenzy. What we don’t need is a replay of Cold War hysteria that cuts off debate and slanders skeptics.

Feb 21, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

YPG fighter in Hasaka

The Syrian Kurds and Allegations of War Crimes The Syrian Kurds and Allegations of War Crimes

Critics respond to Roy Gutman’s special report on the Syrian Kurdish militia.

Feb 21, 2017 / Meredith Tax and Roy Gutman

NSA Headquarters

What Is the Deep State? What Is the Deep State?

Even if we assume the concept is valid, surely it’s not useful to think of the competing interests it represents as monolithic.

Feb 17, 2017 / Greg Grandin

A People’s Globalism: Notes Toward a New Left Internationalism

A People’s Globalism: Notes Toward a New Left Internationalism A People’s Globalism: Notes Toward a New Left Internationalism

Three writers consider the major foreign-policy questions facing the left today.

Feb 16, 2017 / Michael Walzer, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, and Jedediah Britton-Purdy

Donald Trump in State Dining Room

Kremlin-Baiting President Trump (Without Facts) Must Stop Kremlin-Baiting President Trump (Without Facts) Must Stop

Bipartisan allegations that Trump is a “puppet” of or “compromised” by the Kremlin have grown into latter-day McCarthyism with grave threats to America and the world.

Feb 15, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen

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