With a global platform, Mamdani can call attention to human rights abuses in his birth country, Uganda, particularly those against the musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine.
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Stephen Miller’s Worldview Is Straight Out of “Starship Troopers”
The Trump advisor declared the world is “governed by force,” not “international niceties.” Director Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi classic showed us what that world looks like.
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Will Trump’s Strikes on Iran Unleash a Global Arms Race?
Since World War II, nonproliferation efforts have limited the number of countries with nuclear weapons. That may be about to change.
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Trump’s Imperialism Puts Americans Last
The president demands more territory from Greenland to Gaza as if America were a real estate holding company. But most Americans won’t get a penny.
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After Hamas Sexual Violence, “A Room of Women Taking Care of Other Women”
In New York City, I listen as an Israeli officer recalls the care and concern, the rituals and rites, for the women sexually assaulted and slaughtered by Hamas on October 7.
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Will Vladimir Putin Stand Trial for His Pillage of Ukraine?
As a spring offensive by the Ukrainian military looms, Zelensky visits the Hague and presses for the Russian leader, who already faces an arrest warrant, to be brought to trial—and justice.
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Can Putin Be Brought to Justice for Russian War Crimes in Ukraine?
As Ukraine fights for survival, investigators scour the country for evidence of atrocities that are hard but not impossible to prosecute.
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Don’t Let Putin’s War Break the UN
Russia’s Security Council veto helps protect its savage war in Ukraine. But a look at the founding of the world body shows why giving Moscow that power is worth it.
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Two Cheers for Biden at the UN
The president puts Afghanistan and Trump behind us and returns to international cooperation, but from the French submarine affair to refugee chaos, he’s falling short.
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The Plot Against American Global Leadership
Trump doesn’t want a smart foreign policy. He wants to build a nativist political movement at home.
