Coaxing despots into a cushy exile is sometimes the best option.
Pain is on the way even if interest-rate hikes work as intended—which is not a given.
Tunisia was the best case, Sudan the last hope, Syria the bloodiest of all: The countries that not long ago sparked optimism for a democratic wave in the Arab world have descended into dictatorship, and Washington shouldn’t ignore them.
The question is usually posed the other way around—which is an insult to the dynamic economy of this southern state that is now my home.
Why no one took on Trump
The former president’s recent rhetoric shows how his reelection could undo the central promise sustaining today’s international order.
The error of their mythology about 1989 matters because we face another such moment of historical rupture today.
Censored and then forgotten, Anatoly Kuznetsov’s Babi Yar, about the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, is again painfully relevant.
The Islamic Republic shouted its hatred of the West from the rooftops for decades. Many Westerners opted not to hear.
The father of the "freedom agenda" might have reacted to Ukraine's revolution in the same way Obama has.