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New and old forms of wind power There’s Only One Way for Democracies to Save the Planet
The Netherlands is taking the lead in solving climate change—and proving that the rest of the West is doing democracy wrong.
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Mikhail-Gorbachev-Pizza-Hut-commercial-James-Fosdike-homepage Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle
In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.
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James Jeffrey, the U.S. special representative for Syria engagement (center); Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right); former National Security Advisor John Bolton (left); and Joel Rayburn, the U.S. special envoy for Syria (bottom left). How the Iran Hawks Botched Trump’s Syria Withdrawal
Beginning with special representative James Jeffrey, U.S. officials consistently misread the threat from Turkey.
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Zabulon Simentov recites from an old Torah scripture in the last synagogue in Kabul. Afghanistan’s Last Jew Gets Ready for the Taliban—Again
Zabulon Simentov has seen it all, and now, like all Afghans, he must embrace a future filled with uncertainty and violence.
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Qu Dongyu, the new director-general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Outfoxed and Outgunned: How China Routed the U.S. in a U.N. Agency
The race for the top job at an obscure U.N. agency tested great-power influence on the world stage—and Beijing coasted into a victory over Washington.
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trumps-world-cover-foreign-policy-fall-2019-print-3-2 It’s Trump’s World Now. What Do We Do About It?
How to fix U.S. democracy, populism, trade, and other pressing issues.
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Diners at Hunan Slurp in New York’s East Village on July 25. From Chop Suey to Fine Dining
Wealthy Chinese are pushing to overturn their national cuisine’s image as fast and cheap.
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Migrants at a detention center in Zawiyah, west of Tripoli, on June 17, 2017. The U.N. Is Leaving Migrants to Die in Libya
The European Union is funding the Libyan coast guard to keep migrants out of Europe and detain them in a failed state—and that leaves them at the mercy of militias and human traffickers.
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Users make their way into a pop-up safe injection site in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Jan. 26, 2018. Canada’s Drug Crisis Has a Solution. Politicians Don’t Like It.
Decriminalization saves lives. But Canada is only just accepting that reality—and the United States is even further behind.
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vela-incident-nuclear-test-1979-illustration Blast From the Past
Forty years ago, a U.S. satellite detected a nuclear explosion. Evidence today points to a clandestine nuclear test, a Carter administration cover-up, and only one country willing and able to carry it out: Israel.
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HP-static-election-2020-uli-knoerzer3 Where Do the 2020 Candidates Stand on Foreign Policy?
Find out how the Democrats agree and differ on key global issues.
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CK: No caption, but leave a space in caption field to ensure it works right! NASA via Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images Space Research Can Save the Planet—Again
The solutions to climate change lie far, far away.
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A wind farm in Jacobsdorf, Germany, on Feb. 27. PATRICK PLEUL/AFP/Getty Images Climate Change Requires Big Solutions. But Baby Steps Are the Only Way to Go.
Dramatic projects to mitigate global warming often don’t work. Slow, quiet, incremental policies are the planet’s best hope.
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Twitter-foreign-policy-cover-summer-2019-climate-change-party-of-one Who Will Save the Planet?
Meet five unlikely saviors of Earth's climate crisis.
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Greta Thunberg attends the Youth for Climate march in Brussels on Feb. 21. Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images Democracy Is the Planet’s Biggest Enemy
Young people care a lot about climate change—but most of them can’t vote. Here’s how governments can adapt to accommodate them.
