Americans are climate criminals and must pay
That’s the indictment handed up by COP27
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Biden’s left banker
A nominee with a colorful story and ‘radical’ beliefs
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Iranian Laborers Need Our Help
With the celebration of American employees on Labor Day in early September, U.S. workers enjoy what their counterparts in the highly repressive Islamic Republic of Iran cannot: the right to form and join...
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Communist China’s imperialist dreams
The Belt and Road Initiative is about more than infrastructure
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Explaining the Intense Diplomatic Battle Between the U.S. and China
The Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Wolf Warriors’ have Secretary Pompeo in their crosshairs right now, but their agenda will outlast the Trump administration.
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China’s political warfare strategy takes hit from coronavirus
The Wuhan coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2 as the World Health Organization has named it and the Chinese would prefer it to be called, may be on the verge of becoming a pandemic. If it continues to spread,...
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The freedom fighters of Hong Kong
They deserve more support than they’ve been getting.
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Be Careful What You Revolt For
Forty years after Khomeini took power, Iranians are still suffering for their revolution.
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Iran’s latest unfree and unfair election
News must be new but it needn’t be surprising. The decidedly unsurprising news out of Iran last week: There was an election (of sorts) and the winner was Hassan Rouhani, the...
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Tiananmen and China’s Long March
In the 66 years since Mao Tse-tung founded the People’s Republic of China, there has been just one brief spell in which the people of China escaped the chains of their rulers, enough to spe...
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A Chance for Italy to Distinguish Itself
A new president has just taken office in Italy, but since the country only makes news when something bad or sexy—or both—happens, most readers north and west of the Alps probably won&...
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Out with the Old
Italy has long been Europe’s political laboratory, having invented fascism, incubated eurocommunism, launched the postwar economic miracle, and brought the social democratic nanny state to...
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Vladimir Putin, the Neo-Soviet Man
Vladimir Putin and I are about the same age and we went to college at about the same time. As a matter of fact, we went to college together. No, really. Putin attended Leningrad State Un...
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The Tiananmen Reckoning
It’s 24 years since China’s government crushed the mass uprising we remember by the name of Tiananmen Square. I was there, reporting then for the Wall Street Journal’s...
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The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman
In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...
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Oliver Stone’s Party Line
Re-litigating the Cold War and defending the honor of poor old Joe Stalin.
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Wrong Way Down the Danube
How Hungary's Democratic Backsliding Threatens Europe
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Hiding Cuba’s Crimes Behind Gay Rights Lies
On December 7, 1990, Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas ended his life. Forced into exile because of his political dissidence, and dying slowly of AIDS, he could no longer withstand the phys...
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You Cannot Reform a Totalitarian (You’ve Got to Defeat Him)
Back when I was even younger, and living in Rome, the main topic of conversation was of course Communism. Italy had the largest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union, and it was forever on the...
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The Xinjiang Procedure
Beijing’s ‘New Frontier’ is ground zero for the organ harvesting of political prisoners.