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Russia is condemning itself to repeat history
Russia, flexing old imperial muscles, now sees history as a weapon in the neo-imperialist armory.
Russia has levers to cope with oil squeeze
A low oil price will dent growth and public revenues, and Russia needs rebalancing. Yet President Vladimir Putin can hold the line by drawing on reserves and even inflating regional deficits, while the rouble’s fall helps competitiveness. That could enable a fragile equilibrium.How much for a spot on a rubber raft and a slim chance at a better life?
The EU could easily use their resources to pre-process, organize, and fly these people to the regions that want them, but it instead blames the migrants, not the system that kills them.Podcast: Here’s what a real war in space might be like in 2015
From Star Wars to Battlestar Galactica, few battlefields are as fought over in pop-culture as space. Which makes sense. Since the end of World War II the people have looked to the stars as the next great frontier of both exploration and warfare.Why it’s so much easier for Congress to vote for war than peace
Support for diplomacy is often perceived as the riskier vote for Congress members. One reason is that war tends to fail objectively long before it fails politically.Clinton confidential: A close look at the rules that govern what’s a secret
The tranche of Hillary Clinton’s emails released Aug. 31 contains 150 messages containing classified information. That brings the total number to more than 200.Deepening economic ties belie China-Japan tension
Seventy years after World War Two, relations between Asia’s two biggest economies are in poor shape – as Beijing’s huge military parade shows. But trade, investment and tourism tell a different story. Japan’s economic success increasingly depends on China’s, and vice versa.Why the Chinese ‘spies’ the White House sent home were the wrong ones
China plans and executes its efforts over a very long time frame, using the student visa process to place sleepers in universities throughout the country.Could a ‘broken windows’ policing strategy work for the Iran deal?
The international community has to decide now on what compliance threshold Tehran must meet.THE LATEST
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