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Sweden Is Letting Gangs Get Away with Murder
The Scandinavian country prides itself on its human rights legislation, but its child safety laws are helping usher in a wave of child violence.
Paulina Neuding
Niall Ferguson: Could This Be the Start of World War III?
The U.S.-Israeli onslaught on Iran may look to future historians like a staging post to a global conflagration.
Niall Ferguson
I Survived My Father’s Kidnapping. This Is My Message to the Guthrie Family.
Time stops. You wait inside uncertainty, adapting to the unbearable, because there is no other choice.
Miles Hargrove
On the Ground in Nigeria’s Religious Killing Fields
I spent a week in Nigeria, where entire villages are being emptied in coordinated raids—all while the government looks away and the world stays silent.
David Patrikarakos
Say His Name: Rupert Pupkin
In the 1980s, one movie marked the moment when American comedy tipped from social observation to shared delusion.
Dominic Green
‘Nonviolence in a Violent Age’: Coleman Hughes Live at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta
A live conversation with Ambassador Andrew Young and acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. biographer Jonathan Eig.
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Fear Is Now Just Part of the Job for Politicians
Many are increasingly worried about a culture that sees them as targets for violence, regardless of their politics.
Tanner Nau
Wikipedia Editors Are Helping Iran Rewrite History
An investigation into Wikipedia editing patterns reveals a yearslong, coordinated campaign to sanitize the Islamic Republic’s human rights record.
Ashley Rindsberg
Niall Ferguson: The Myth of Revolution in Iran
The West wants a revolution in Iran. What’s actually happening is a counterrevolution—and history shows those are usually doomed to fail.
Niall Ferguson
Iranians Take to the Streets. What Comes Next?
Michael Doran and Roya Hakakian on what the protests roiling Iran mean—and what comes next.
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Why the West Keeps Failing to Stop Islamist Terrorism
How did extremist ideologies become acceptable—and what can be done?
Rafaela Siewert
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Mr. President, Don’t Mock the Dead
Americans have become inured to Trump’s social media taunts. Yet he still finds ways to shock us on occasion.
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