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Are There Better Foreign Policy Alternatives to Liberal Internationalism?
Despite its internal contradictions and hypocrisy, ditching it will lead to a more cynical and grim world
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Will Syria Get Freedom or Sharia After Toppling its Savage Dictator?
There is reason to hope for a better future since the country engineered its own regime change
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Mustafa Akyol
2
Trump’s Rhino Epidemic Is Growing
Eugène Ionesco's play still offers the best allegory for our times
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Shikha Dalmia
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Right-Wing Radicals Are Drowning Out South Korea’s Institutional Conservatives, Creating a Political Crisis
The left in the country has its excesses but that does not justify the conservative president’s declaration of martial law
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Wondong Lee
 and 
Joseph Yi
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Trump’s Tariffs Will Put America on the Road to War
America First’s anti-war and anti-trade positions can’t be reconciled
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Matthew Downhour
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Tariffs Are Trump's Tool to Consolidate His Hold on Power
They won't only be injurious to the U.S. economy but also to its liberal democracy because he will use them to reward friends and punish enemies
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Steve Chapman
7
Musk Has Defended His Right-Wing Bro in Brazil, Not Free Speech
He sticks up for this right when it suits his ideological purpose and caves when it doesn't
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Hugo Bueno
3
Memoricide: Hindu Nationalism’s Project of Erasing Minority Contributions to India’s History
The ruling party is systematically distorting the country’s past to impose its vision of the future
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Amal Chandra
2
Are America's Reactionary and Democratic Spirits in a Global Duel? A Conversation with Zack Beauchamp
This country's political contradictions are bedeviling other liberal democracies too
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Shikha Dalmia
2
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The Dictator Whom Trump Resembles That No One Is Talking About
Trump admires Putin and Orbán, but Turkey’s Erdoğan might be his closest parallel
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Henri J. Barkey
18
Your Comprehensive Guide to the Far Right: Part I
Understanding this rising threat to liberalism across the world is the first step to defeating it
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Janet Bufton
 and 
Tom G. Palmer
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Israel Can’t Survive by a Go-It-Alone Strategy that Squanders International Goodwill
Its people should not have to spend the next Rosh Hashanah in bomb shelters
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Sam Kahn
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