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Trump’s rise has made Canadians more conscious of—and more full-throated defenders of—the pluralistic values that inform their society. Without meaning to, Trump has done much to give Canada the elevated international stature it has long craved.

China’s largest online marketplace, Taobao, offers everything from inflatable donkeys to live mice to breast implants. And now fake boyfriends are available for purchase, too.

Russia has embarked on a systemic challenge to the West. Washington must respond by preserving transatlantic unity and strengthening NATO. But it must also maintain dialogue with Moscow to prevent the situation from worsening.

Six months ago, Microsoft’s Bill Gates proposed a robot tax, on the grounds that if workers pay taxes, so too should the machines that take their jobs. Such a policy would, in Gates’s words, “slow down the speed” of automation, thereby allowing societies to “manage [the] displacement” of workers. The idea speaks to a widespread sense that the labor market isn’t working like it used to.

The biggest change that U.S. President Donald Trump has brought to North Korea policy is rhetorical - but the strategic implications may be huge. "Take Preventive War With North Korea Off the Table" is from foreignaffairs.com, published on August 22, 2017.

It's time to put partisanship aside and come together to protect U.S. democracy.

Turkey’s military leaders rarely make public appearances at political events. But on August 7, General Hulusi Akar, the country’s chief of staff, appeared in uniform before a rally of more than a million people in Istanbul, alongside President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, and the leaders of the Turkish opposition. Through numerous interruptions for applause, Akar thanked Turkey’s civilians for helping to quash July’s coup attempt.

Few anticipated that 2016 would see such unprecedented missile and nuclear testing in North Korea, most recently its fifth and largest ever test, reportedly coming in at 10 kilotons. But none of this should have come as a surprise. Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s approach to developing its strategic forces is markedly different - more aggressive - than it was under his father or grandfather.

How an 1867 embassy prefigured Chinese and American Power.

Putin and authoritarian leaders in his position have three primary options for succession.

The United States is best off keeping a residual force in Afghanistan—but not escalating, as President Donald Trump plans to do.

Managing the impacts of climate change requires a fundamentally different approach from the way most policymakers currently think about the issue.

When the anti-austerity party Syriza came to power in Greece in January 2015, Cornel Ban and I wrote in a Foreign Affairs article that, at some point, Europe was bound to face an Alexis Tsipras, the party’s leader and Greek prime minister, “because there’s only so long you can ask people to vote for impoverishment today based on promises of a better tomorrow that never arrives.”

It is clear by now that China’s economy is set to slow in the years to come, although economists disagree about how much and for how long.

As Xi begins his second five-year term as CCP general secretary and (soon) president.

In present-day China, hundreds of millions of people are turning to faith for answers they cannot find elsewhere in their radically secular society. This burst of religious activity poses risks for the Chinese Communist Party and as Beijing pursues a new, harder line on social change, striking the delicate balance between toleration and repression may become harder.

Three big trends - a growing reliance on older voters, an extremist ideological turn, and an increasing internal rigidity - have changed the Republican Party over the past decade, weakening its ability to win presidential elections and inhibiting its ability to govern.

Recent Chinese policies have fueled concerns that the country seeks to overturn the post–Cold War geopolitical order. But China is not the only revisionist power in Asia. Just as Chinese revisionism alarms Washington, the United States’ promotion of the liberal order stokes fear in Beijing and beyond.

A conversation with Ashton Carter.

As growth slows in mature economies across the developed world, economic inequality has reached new heights. Defined in terms of the shares of disposable income of households across the economic spectrum, adjusted for varying needs, inequality to-day in the United States is significantly higher than it was a generation ago. The same is true in the United Kingdom, and even less laissez-faire countries, such as Germany and Sweden, have seen inequality increase dramatically.