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The Biden administration’s view of the world as a diplomatic conversation was disconnected from reality.
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Olaf Scholz, the SPD candidate, is by far the most popular of Merkel’s potential successors – and the one who…
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The US military arsenal now available to the Taliban
The Taliban may now be the only militant group in the world in possession of an air force.
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The star US strategist on the case for reforming Congress.
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Jacob Zuma and South Africa’s moment of reckoning
Decades of corruption and misrule have exhausted South Africa. Hope for the future remains, but it is slighter than ever.
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In 1998 the Taliban massacred 2,000 Hazara people, long the victims of sectarian violence. In my mountains and in my…
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