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The fate of the world may rest on humanitys most boring invention

The fate of the world may rest on humanity's most boring invention

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It's dictators, not democracies, that are vulnerable to subversion

Tinker, tailor, soldier, democracy

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Space is a critical battlefield, and the West is losing

The next war will be won and lost in space

Bert Chapman
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Progress is humanity's worst idea

We need to abandon progress

Samuel Miller McDonald
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Putin, Xi, and the mistaken quest for immortality

The dangers of eternal life

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Obama's chief economist: Neoliberalism is the only game in town

"We don't have an alternative"

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Aid won't fix everything but we must still give it

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It is tradition that offers us a true way forward.

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Piketty insists "it's time for Western countries to take the BRICS seriously"

The West must engage with the BRICS

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Europe's decline and Spengler's revenge

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The US, Iran, Israel, and the future of the Middle East

US strategic ambiguity in Iran has failed

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The rules of war are a collective myth

Why the weak still suffer what they must

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Trump, China, and the end of Western dominance

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Iran is the enemy the West created

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Francis Fukuyama warns Trump is not a realist

After the end of history

Francis Fukuyama
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Why finances muscle wont solve the climate crisis.

Wall Street, not Trump, is deciding our climate future

Our climate policies aren't working on the ground

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The End of the West means even more than you think

Trump threatens 2000 years of Western thought

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Trump tariffs have pros and cons, like everything else

We need to be more realistic about Trump tariffs

Dmitry Grozoubinski
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