The Autocrat’s Dilemma
Xi Jinping’s ruthless reign in China offers important lessons for aspiring authoritarians.
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America Needs to Get Serious About Drones
The new age of war is already here, swarming over Barksdale Air Force Base.
America Is Now a Rogue Superpower
Washington’s conduct in the Iran war is accelerating global chaos and deepening America’s dangerous isolation.
The Kurdish Ground Force Preparing to Fight in Iran
The Peshmerga on the Iraq-Iran border are eager to join the American campaign. They’re also deeply uneasy about where it might lead.
The Worst-Case Scenario for AI and the News Is Already Here
Audiovisual evidence is no match for a viral conspiracy theory that Benjamin Netanyahu is dead.
The First Post-Reality Political Campaign
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.
Cuba Doesn’t Care About Marxism
Washington and Havana used to fight over ideology. That’s not true anymore.
The Countdown to a Ground War
The president wants to avoid a long, messy entanglement, but all of the ground options promise to be just that.
‘You Want to Leave Us Alone With Mojtaba?’
I’ve spoken with more than a dozen Iranians since the start of the war. Most are terrified, and some are losing faith in America.
Canada’s Polite Pogrom
Is a national tolerance for zealotry purging Jews from public life?