Is Tarek al-Wazir a face of Germany?
Could a single German regional election be a hopeful template for tomorrow?
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Brazil and the continuing worldwide attack on ‘mutual toleration’.
A surprising number of Brazilian voters were willing to go along with some of the more outrageous claims by far-right front-runner Jair Bolsonaro. Why?
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From Washington to Bollywood, women are being heard − but are they being listened to?
For this unprecedented moment to really matter, concrete changes must be made all over the world.
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America’s new game is Risk without rules.
In 2018, the United States’ game on international relations is a real-time Risk without rules. Without rules, the game is no longer worth playing.
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Trump on South Africa shows poisonous mess he’s serving up on presidential china.
Rashmee Roshan Lall on whether Donald Trump intends to lead the white Christian peoples of the world in a racial and religious war.
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That other European Union.
Will European values come to symbolise exclusivism rather than enlightenment values?
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Migration is not at a peak — hysteria is.
The unblinking focus on migration is unwarranted, Rashmee Roshan Lall argues.
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A G3 world order? Great powers compete, as in the 19th century.
The world is being carved up between the two largest economies (the US and China) and the two largest nuclear powers (the US and Russia).
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Global migration, from American dream to nightmare.
Zero tolerance of migrants has become a moral crisis for the U.S., but it is providing a template for a different, darker, new American dream.
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Cosmopolitanism isn’t dead, but it might need a rebrand.
It should not become a casualty in the clash between rising nationalism and globalisation but should seek to combine the two, Rashmee Roshan Lall argues.
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Could capricious American unilateralism leave the US out in the cold?
Those who wait with baited breath for a stinging European response to America’s withdrawal from the multi-lateral Iran nuclear deal should prepare to be marginally disappointed.
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Trump’s economic adviser wants the exact opposite of most Americans.
How successful is Larry Kudlow as Donald Trump’s top economic advisor?
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The only predictable thing about North Korea is its unpredictability.
Startling change in world affairs is not without precedent. It is startling because it is deemed practically impossible before it happens.
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Swazi King renames country; UK Queen asks Commonwealth to let her son lead. Difference?
Swaziland King Mswati III’s renames his country eSwatini and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II tells the Commonwealth she hopes her son and heir becomes head of the organisation.
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What did Mark Zuckerberg know about Turkey’s elections, and when did he know it?
What do Zuck and Facebook really know about politics and elections? Maybe more than meets the eye.
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Syria strikes are ‘mission accomplished’ for the usual suspects. Here’s why.
The posturing all around after the April 13 US, UK and French strikes on Syria has been really quite remarkable. It would be nauseating if it weren’t so amusing.
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U.S. strikes on Syria would not be legal.
Never mind that U.S. strikes on Syria would be useless and dangerously escalate tensions with Russia, they wouldn’t be legal.
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