Jennifer Bradley, RealClearWorld
The pace of China's nuclear modernization has been described as breathtaking by Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command. The increased size and sophistication of the capabilities being developed make them a strategic threat to the U.S. and its allies. Along with that threat comes the uncertainty around how large China plans to grow its force.
Graeme Dobell, ASPI Strategist
Gorbachev's intellect and will meant he wasn't seeking an end to Russia's role as a great power. But having risen to the peak of the Soviet system, he acted on the truth he knew deeply: the system wasn't working. He did what apparatchiks seldom dream of—he attacked the fundamentals of the machine that made him.
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Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor
The violence erupted Monday when powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced that he was "retiring" from politics. This triggered a bloody confrontation between Iraqi security forces, including members of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Units, and his supporters who stormed the presidential palace. The fighting left at least 23 people dead.
Economist
The two great heroes in Mikhail Gorbachev's pantheon were 19th-century socialist thinkers, Alexander Herzen and Vissarion Belinsky, whose main concerns were the dignity of the individual, and whose books he knew almost by heart. When they appeared on the Russian stage, in Tom Stoppard's trilogy "The Coast of Utopia", he went to see them. At the end of the performance he was called on stage and given a standing ovation by an audience that, for the most part, had scarcely been born when... Читать дальше...
Bret Stephens, New York Times
The End of History was supposed to have happened back in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and Francis Fukuyama announced the conclusive triumph of liberal democracy. We know how that thesis worked out. But what happens when the other kind of History — academic, not Hegelian — starts to collapse?
A review of 22 previously published studies suggests that taking micro-breaks—discontinuing a task for periods of 10 minutes or less—is generally associated with reduced fatigue and increased vigor. Patricia Albulescu of the West University of Timioara, Romania, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on August 31, 2022.
The foreign minister remarked that at some stage the European partners would eventually opt for realism, but for now Russia should focus on how to secure itself and its relations with friendly countries from any whims of the West
The Hanover County School Board voted 5-2 to adopt the policy, slammed by advocates as "disappointing," "invasive and unnecessary" and "the most horrific bathroom policy ever."
Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman & Jeremy Wallace, Foreign Affairs
How AI distorts decision-making and makes dictators more dangerous.
The world is untrustworthy, as are its institutions and ideologies. But when all else fails, the film suggests the possibility of faith in one another.
Viktoriia Dudakova was the only winner to go the distance Tuesday at Dana White's Contender Series 52 and was worried about a UFC contract.
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