Two Centuries of Neutrality Ended When a Folder Changed Hands
Sweden joined NATO the moment a folder of papers changed hands in Washington. Why the accession…
Category: Global
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Two Ways to Deliver Flour, and Why Only One of Them Leaves a Record
Aid normally moves under deconfliction, marked vehicles and neutral staff. The convoy on al-Rashid Street had…
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Nineteen Years Was Never a Length of Time
A prison service announced a death in its own colony, supplied the only account of the…
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The Ballot Says Independent. The Arithmetic Says Something Else.
Denied its symbol, a Pakistani party put every candidate on the ballot as an independent, and…
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Fifty Billion Euros, and a Veto That Had Nowhere to Go
One member state blocked fifty billion euros for Ukraine since December, promised to block it again…
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The Court Ordered a State to Prevent Genocide. It Has Done That Once Before.
The world court ordered Israel to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza. It issued an order of…
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Two Nuclear Armed States Struck Each Other and Stopped Inside Two Days
Iran struck militants inside Pakistan on Tuesday and Pakistan struck militants inside Iran on Thursday. Neither…
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The Concrete Jungle Is Turning Green Again
From Copenhagen to Singapore, cities are unbuilding their worst ideas. The next great urban project is…