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Drug trafficking, money laundering and a compliant regime have sustained Hezbollah's presence in Venezuela for two decades. Since Maduro's fall, that haven is no longer secure.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu’s call for a ‘working-class liberalism’ fails to address the underlying cause of liberal democracy’s woes: a lack of productivity.
Small modular reactors (SMRs) were first conceived for military use and deployed on polar bases. Seventy years on, their record remains dismal.
Transcendentalism, the visionary philosophy championed by figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, is the yin of the American Revolution.
The conventional narrative assumes economies can grow while using less energy. The opposite is happening. It is time for climate realism.
To protect Europe from Russian aggression, Germans must resolve a tension that lies at the heart of their modern national identity: a clash between the ideals of ‘Never Again Fasci..
Antonin Baudry's imaginative adaptation of my biography of de Gaulle, ‘A Certain Idea of France’, raises questions about which liberties film-makers may take when depicting the pas..
For a declining Russia, the Baltic exclave is a bridge too far.
In the postwar period, the US-led world order succeeded in taming efforts to redraw international boundaries by force, but eliminating such impulses entirely is not a realistic bas..
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