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Thailand has been gripped by the largest wave of protest in years, forcing a reckoning between the country’s dual structures of democracy and monarchy.
Peera Songkünnatham
Bias and due process violations in Brazil’s massive corruption investigation.
Leonardo Avritzer
Negotiations may ease the humanitarian crisis—while strengthening Assad.
Stephen Zunes
Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.
Paul Linden-Retek
Fears of terrorism, and President Erdoğan’s rivalry with an exiled theologian, have become excuses for censorship and repression.
Umar Farooq
The neglect and abuse of Pakistan's tribal areas.
The history of terrorism in France offers lessons in how best to respond to the Paris attacks.
Julian Bourg
It is time for the United States to take responsibility for the war it encouraged in Syria.
Aziz Z. Huq
In Israel and Palestine, two states are still better than one.
Assaf Sharon
Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
It is becoming impossible to ignore the growing theocratic elements in a nation that sees itself as the only democracy in the Middle East.
Elad Uzan
The politics of effective altruism.
Emily Clough
The Director of Research at Giving What We Can responds to Emily Clough.
Hauke Hillebrandt
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