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Polish director Agnieszka Holland's new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.
Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.
The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.
On stopping the fighting and building the peace.
Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.
Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.
Erdogan is all too easily labelled a populist. But the reasons for his popularity are more complicated.
The idea that Putin is driven by the philosophy of Eurasianism obscures the pragmatism of Russia's foreign policy.
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