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At the annual gathering of the United Nations General Assembly last week, when the subject was briefly Sudan, the U.S. ambassador opened her remarks by citing “compassion collapse,”…
Read more Angelina Jolie: Let Refugees Help RefugeesTwo decades ago, the world came together in an effort to “Save Darfur,” a mass mobilization of collective outrage that forced governments and multilateral institutions to act. Rallies,…
Read more The World Is Ignoring the Catastrophe in SudanSince the end of the Cold War, the High North has been defined by the idea of “Arctic exceptionalism,” the common understanding that the region had unwritten rules,…
Read more The Coming Battle Over the ArcticTo judge from the editorial pages and Capitol Hill currents that both shape and reflect Washington’s perceptions of the world, the doomsayers sounding alarms over the risk of…
Read more The Coming Russian Escalation With the WestThat it is a foregone conclusion that Claudia Sheinbaum will be Mexico’s next President is a tragedy for Mexican democracy. Sheinbaum is Mexico’s presidential frontrunner and the anointed…
Read more The Tragedy of Mexico’s ElectionThe long decline of the Republican Party’s internationalist wing may have reached a tipping point. Since Donald Trump emerged as the GOP’s dominant figure in 2016, he has…
Read more The GOP Has Crossed an Ominous Threshold on Foreign PolicyInternational law should restrain military aggression, help punish wrongdoers, and provide some guidance to conducting warfare ethically. In Ukraine and Gaza, international law seems to be doing none…
Read more What International Law Can—and Can’t Achieve—in GazaIn 2023, we have witnessed plenty of shock events: consider, for instance, Hamas’ attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent siege on Gaza, Chinese “spy balloons,” the assassination of…
Read more 5 Shock Events to the World That Are Already in SightWestern sanctions against Russia in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 came hard and fast. Moscow lost access to a staggering $300…
Read more How the West Can Make Russian Sanctions Bite AgainLike millions of people from Sudan, we have seen our families suffer in the wake of a devastating war that began in April. No one in Sudan has…
Read more Sudan's Dangerous Descent Into WarlordismLast week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had foiled an alleged plot by an Indian official to murder a Sikh activist and American citizen in…
Read more Why India Is Targeting Sikhs At Home and Around the WorldArgentines head to the polls this Sunday, Nov. 19 for the second round of the most divisive presidential election in decades. The choice couldn’t be more stark—between an…
Read more Argentina Faces a Bleak ElectionWhen Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, like most world leaders, condemned Hamas’s horrific actions and…
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