How policy blunders under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush helped bring about a post-communist Russia hostile to democracy, free markets, and the West
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The Ukraine Crisis: Another Chapter in the Russian-American Carbon Rivalry
The U.S. and Russia have vied to serve Europe with energy since the 1940s. The current tensions in Ukraine must be viewed in that context.
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Most Americans Don’t Want War With Russia. Where Are Progressives?
Anti-war politicians have become willing to criticize failed adventurism in the Middle East. They’re more reluctant to pump the brakes on Ukraine.
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Understanding Ukraine
The Quincy Institute’s Anatol Lieven explains Russian and Ukrainian intentions, and how the U.S. has ‘trapped ourselves by our own rhetoric.’
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Ukraine 2022: An Avoidable Train Wreck?
Despite the drumbeat for war, the broad outlines of a brokered agreement are discernible.
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‘No Money Could Bring Back the Dead’
How America’s last drone strike in Afghanistan symbolizes its total failure within the 20-year war
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Corporate Ties and Drawdown: Foreign Policy in 2021
The best from our outgoing managing editor Jonathan Guyer and our global affairs coverage this year
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Tanzania and Nigeria Struggle With Water Access, Quality
As the climate crisis intensifies and COVID-19 persists, the two countries still confront problems that privatization efforts never solved.
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France’s Éric Zemmour Has Already Transformed America’s Far Right
The far-right pundit may not become the next president of France, but his ideas have influenced American nationalists for a decade.
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A Better Way in the Middle East
For America, the Baghdad dialogue makes far more strategic sense than the Abraham Accords.
