No More Student Visas? No Problem.
Beijing has reasons to want its top students to stay home.
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The Condemnations of Israel Are Half-Hearted
Diplomacy often takes the form of staged meetings and statements whose plain meanings differ from what the country’s leaders actually feel. What they actually feel is not usually difficult to discern.
The War Israel Was Ready to Fight
The strategy that led to the October 7 disaster is the same one fueling Israel’s current successes.
Iran’s Stunning Incompetence
A belligerent regime left its people wide open to foreign attack.
Israel’s Least Bad Option Is a Trump Deal With Iran
New rounds of military strikes won’t make the region more stable, but a nuclear agreement could.
No Rational Aid-Distribution System Should Work This Way
The new Gaza relief effort was bound to fail.
Every Election Is Now Existential
A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.
Ukraine’s Warning to the World’s Other Military Forces
Expensive planes, tanks, and ships can be destroyed on the cheap.
The Anti-Anti-Feminist Election
The fight over South Korea’s democracy is also a fight over women’s rights.
The Two Extremists Driving Israel’s Policy
One is an ideologue, the other a rabble-rouser. Both are pushing their country to places once unthinkable.