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Thailand on the Brink of Change

Thai society appears united on the need to end military rule.

The White House’s embrace of the Indian leader is normalizing fascism in the world’s most populous country — and in the U.S. as well.

The failed coup by the Wagner Group has exposed the Russian president’s fatal weaknesses.

A review of Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship by Max Lane.

A strategically effective military must commit to being socially responsible in order to align itself with its own professed values.

The mutiny of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner paramilitary is over. But it may inspire others.

The rich get a rescue mission, the poor get nothing.

Developed countries must take responsibility for the climate crisis they initiated by paying reparations for developing countries, including mine.

Enormous Pentagon budgets are also inflating CEO pay at major military contractors. Here’s how to rein in this taxpayer-funded excess.

African leaders visited Russia and Ukraine. The U.S. secretary of state visited China. Is detente making a comeback?