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Hopelessness provides fertile ground for extremists on both sides to promote more violence.
In France, a politicization of discontent has not translated into stable institutions.
World Brief: France aims to quell anti-government protests, Israel arrests 10 people in connection with settler attacks in the West Bank, and Italy reckons with a cost-of-living crisis.
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Washington is focused on the battle for AI, but China is ready to compete in space.
A war meant to limit Iranian hegemony in the Middle East may have instead enabled it.
Allowing Social Security to collapse would be disastrous for U.S. workers and the broader economy. In the early 1980s, Congress faced a similar crisis and acted.
Russia’s shadow war is taking place on land, in space, and, as a new book by FP columnist Elisabeth Braw explains, it is increasingly taking place at the bottom of the sea.
Contrary to popular belief, there’s no evidence that the classic cocktail was invented by British officers in India to make their malaria medicine more palatable.
Min Jin Lee’s third novel struggles under the weight of its sociological questions.
In Nepal, U.S. assistance helped build disaster monitoring and response capacity for decades. Then USAID was dismantled.
Splitting with the UAE is an extension of Algeria’s effort to project its influence in North Africa.
As Russia’s gray-zone attacks grow across the continent, Europe should be willing to shoulder more of the risk.
Monazite contains not only huge amounts of valuable rare earths, it also typically contains radioactive byproducts which means its handling is tightly regulated by government agencies, writes Glenn Zorpette.
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Like gin and tonic, myth and history make for a classic cocktail.
Chinese firms are displacing Western competitors in one of the century’s most important and most overlooked industries.
Washington and Riyadh risk sacrificing Syrian stability by pressuring Damascus to join their war.
The rare-earths industry outside of China needs to grow up. Many experts see a way forward, and it depends on a specific kind of ore called monazite.
A sharp break with the UAE underscores Algeria’s ambitions to reassert its presence on the international stage after decades on the periphery.
Economist @adam_tooze on how the work of Michael Woodford and Robert Hall laid the groundwork for today’s central bankers.
For Europe, the price of deterring Russia is accepting a share of the risk.
