World Leaders

US Special Forces in Africa

What’s the US Military Doing in Africa? What’s the US Military Doing in Africa?

If it were up to the Pentagon, we’d never find out.

Oct 26, 2022 / Nick Turse

Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy

Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy

Pollster Stanley Greenberg is the Cassandra warning of Democratic Party complacency.

Oct 24, 2022 / Jeet Heer

Liz Truss

Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives

Liz Truss was a hopeless, incompetent leader. But the temptation of a return to the discredited certainties of free-market dogma proved impossible for her party to resist.

Oct 21, 2022 / Gary Younge

Russian soldiers on Red Square

Nationwide Protest of Putin’s War, and Exodus From Putin’s Russia Nationwide Protest of Putin’s War, and Exodus From Putin’s Russia

Russian history reminds that every major military defeat has led to the beginning of serious reforms or revolution.

Oct 21, 2022 / Boris Kagarlitsky

A soldier prepares to launch a drone in Afghanistan.

What We Should Have Learned From the War on Terror What We Should Have Learned From the War on Terror

And what it can teach us about the future of the crisis in Ukraine.

Oct 21, 2022 / Karen J. Greenberg

Now-former Prime Minister Liz Truss is candidly pictured leaving 10 Downing Street.

Liz Truss or No Liz Truss, Things Are Bleaker in Britain Than Anyone Realizes Liz Truss or No Liz Truss, Things Are Bleaker in Britain Than Anyone Realizes

As jaws drop around the world over the resignation of the UK’s shortest-lived prime minister, life here is getting considerably worse by the day.

Oct 20, 2022 / Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Houston Astros shortstop Alex Bregman hits a grand slam home run

Want World Peace? Ban the Home Run. Want World Peace? Ban the Home Run.

The dream of the game-changing home run has shaped our approach to so much, from sports to geopolitics—most significantly, our ability to solve problems through reason and diplomac...

Oct 20, 2022 / Robert Lipsyte

Rafael Mariano Grossi

Now Is Not the Time to Playact Nuclear War Now Is Not the Time to Playact Nuclear War

NATO and Russia are both choosing this fraught moment to hold nuclear exercises.

Oct 18, 2022 / Matt Bivens

Joe Biden, left, fist bumps with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Royal Palace.

The Saudi Regime Isn’t Afraid of Joe Biden The Saudi Regime Isn’t Afraid of Joe Biden

Despite widespread disgust at Saudi perfidy, odds are that crackpot realism will once again trump human rights—or even the national interest.

Oct 17, 2022 / Jeet Heer

Soldiers patrol Goma, a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It was attacked by M23 rebels in clashes with the Congolese army.

Is the West’s Romance With Paul Kagame Finally Ending? Is the West’s Romance With Paul Kagame Finally Ending?

The crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has worsened, and Rwanda’s government is largely to blame.

Oct 14, 2022 / James North

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