From sectarian passions to shifting tides of global opinion, there are threats that missiles can’t defend against.
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From sectarian passions to shifting tides of global opinion, there are threats that missiles can’t defend against.
Building resilient, chaos-resistant social and political structures will — whatever disaster is on deck.
If the country doesn’t address their alienation and anger, they could form a powerful part of a unified Palestinian movement.
The situation has grown too volatile for the U.S. to ignore anymore.
A week ago, an Arab party was set to be kingmaker of Israel's new government. Now Jews and Arabs are battling in the streets.
In their own ways, both Republicans and Democrats contribute to the corruption of public discourse.
Putin seems to have revived the 16th-century “letter of marque” that England used against the Spanish Empire.
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There are reasons to be hopeful that the country can prevent a third Covid wave.
Republican governors are taking the risky step of withdrawing a benefit from voters. Profiles in courage? Or in cynicism?
A major factory-safety agreement is about to expire. The timing could hardly be worse.
But the U.S. still has a crucial role to play in preventing a war in Gaza.
Changing the GOP would require grass-roots support, a realistic plan and a killer instinct. A new effort seems to lack all three.
There’s little indication from markets or the economy that adding $4 trillion to a $28 trillion debt load would be problematic.
Most taxpayers needn’t obsess about a White House plan to toughen enforcement. Here are the big exceptions.
If the strategy was to further the Palestinian cause, it has failed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's status quo strategy underestimated Hamas and gave Israelis a false sense of security.
The scars of the second wave of the pandemic will run deep but the country has to tailor its ongoing response to the disease to maximize a rebound.
New births in China last year fell to their lowest in almost six decades. Pro-natalist policies there and elsewhere can start by improving women’s lives.
Iran is capitalizing on the latest Israeli-Palestinian clashes to interject itself into the West Bank.
Oversight of executive agencies is part of the House and Senate’s job. Or used to be.
The president’s proposals for jobs, infrastructure, education and child care show that government can be a force for progress.
A high and rising carbon price is our best shot against global warming. Unfortunately, we’re doing other stuff to prevent it from working.
Out of self-interest, the rest of the world better help quickly to understand how a Covid variant is devastating the country.
A Q&A with demographer Lyman Stone about what it really means to become a more family-friendly society.
It’s not fear of their defeated nominee that’s turning the GOP into the party of subverting elections.
The latest Israeli-Palestinian clashes are a reminder that the tinder is dry, and there are arsonists aplenty.
The Biden administration’s soft-pedaling on the Houthi rebels has played into Iranian hands.
Author Michael Lewis chronicles how the government’s Covid-19 response went awry in his latest book.
Pulling out of Afghanistan won’t be a disaster (except for the Afghans). Abandoning Taiwan would be a monumental error.
Relax, political worrywarts. Tough primary fights won’t make it harder to win the 2022 congressional midterms.
As fiscally strapped governments struggle to cope with the pandemic, festering grievances over poor services and broken political promises are spilling out into the streets.
A new U.S. president is causing Arab states to seek new friendships and reexamine old ones.
