Review
List of Review articles
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street in London. Will Disunity Drive the Tories Out of Downing Street?
A new book charts the troubled path of the U.K. Conservative Party in the wake of Brexit.
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Works depicting Black astronauts line the portal to the “New Black Futures” section of the Afrofuturism exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington. The Infinite Possibilities of Afrofuturism
A history of Black futures at the Smithsonian is a kaleidoscope that offers multiple readings.
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U.S. President Joe Biden meets with senior military members, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and combatant commanders at the White House in Washington on April 20, 2022. The Futility of Grand Strategy
Today’s brilliant strategist is tomorrow’s headstrong fool.
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Four actors from the film Ponniyin Selvan: Part 2 pose outside during film promotion The Greatest Movie Epic You’ve Never Heard of
A classic of Tamil literature has become a stunning pair of films.
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People cool off and sunbathe by the Trocadero Fountains next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. A Medley of Arguments and Stories Captures European Lives
‘This is Europe’ lets the continent’s residents tell their own tales.
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China's first operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, sails with six other ships during a drill at sea. China Is Rewriting the Law of the Sea
Washington missed the boat to shape the global maritime order. Beijing is stepping in.
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Keri Russell as Kate Wyler in an episode of The Diplomat Is Netflix’s ‘The Diplomat’ Factual or Farcical?
A former U.S. ambassador, an Iran expert, a Libya expert, and a former U.K. Conservative Party advisor weigh in.
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Soviet soldiers prepare tanks for transfer to the Soviet Union at the Altes Lager garrison near Jüterbog, East Germany, circa 1989. Cold War II Is All About Geopolitics
A new book overplays the domestic roots of Sino-U.S. confrontation and underestimates its geopolitical logic.
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A couple walk past a billboard calling for a stop to domestic violence in Beijing Chinese Courts Want Abused Women to Shut Up
Personal and political violence are intermixed in authoritarian societies.
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An undated pencil drawing depicts work on a sugar plantation in the West Indies. Black children are among the laborers working to chop sugar cane under the watchful eye of a suited white overseer wearing a hat. Sugar as Modern Capitalism’s Original Sin
A new book shows its history as anything but sweet.
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Sunbathers under umbrellas line the beach with sailboats dotting the sea behind them in Cannes, France, on Sept. 1, 1948. How the French Riviera Got Its Glitz
Long before the Cannes Film Festival, a new book shows, the Côte d’Azur built a brand on flaunting affluence.
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An illustration showing Cleopatra from the new Netflix documentary series "Queen Cleopatra," played by Black British actress Adele James. Why Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Has Egypt up in Arms
Western leaders and filmmakers have long denied the link between modern Egypt and its ancient heritage.
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Keri Russell as Kate Wyler walks by a State Department Seal from a scene in The Diplomat, a new Netflix show about the foreign service. At Long Last, the Foreign Service Gets the Netflix Treatment
Keri Russell gets Drexel furniture but no Senate confirmation hearing.
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The book covers for Jenna Smialek's Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis and Nick Timiraos' Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic—and Prevented Economic Disaster. How the Fed Became Everything (and Everything Became the Fed)
Two books peel back the curtain on the central bank—but miss why it misread the economy in the wake of the pandemic.
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Welcoming the Newcomers (2019), a painting by Cree artist Kent Monkman that reimagines European colonizers' arrival in America and references both Indigenous and European art traditions. Who Can Tell Native Stories?
A new book on Natives journeying across the Atlantic reaches the outer limits of what European-style academic research can accomplish.
