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The first months of any administration reveal the actual architecture of power behind the elected official at its center. Titles matter less than access. Cabinet appointments matte…
The Tigray War that consumed northern Ethiopia between 2020 and 2022 was, by the measures that humanitarian organizations use to assess catastrophe, one of the worst conflicts of t…
Poland has spent most of its modern history being consequential in ways it did not choose. Partitioned three times in the eighteenth century. Occupied twice in the twentieth. Posit…
The 2022 FIFA World Cup that Qatar hosted was the most expensive sporting event in recorded history. The figure most cited, somewhere north of two hundred billion dollars when all …
The 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC was received, when it was signed, as the end of the longest-running armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere.…
Somewhere between 2020 and now, the mental geography of American cities shifted. The hierarchy that held for most of the twentieth century, with New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago …
Ghana has earned, and to some extent jealously guards, a reputation as West Africa's most reliable democracy. Six peaceful transfers of power since the return to multiparty electio…
There is a version of the American border story that lives entirely in Washington, expressed in terms of enforcement budgets, detention capacity, and legislative standoffs. Then th…
