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No, Not All Politics Are Local
A guide to the U.S. midterms for foreign-policy wonks.
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A photo of Vanessa García when she was 16 with her 27-year-old boyfriend, who used the alias Darío Lulo, during their time with the FARC. Vanessa became pregnant and says she was forced to abort his child. (Erika Piñeros for Foreign Policy) The Women Abandoned by Peace
Victims of sexual violence and forced abortion during Colombia’s long years of conflict have yet to see justice.
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October_ambassadors Mapped: The Absent Ambassadors
Khashoggi ordeal spotlights staffing gap at embassies around the world.
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Uighur people pick up their children from school on July 27, 2017, in Kashgar City, Xinjiang, where everyday activities such as wearing a headscarf in the presence of the PRC flag can be cause for detainment. (Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) 48 Ways to Get Sent to a Chinese Concentration Camp
Something terrible is happening in Xinjiang.
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Seligman_1 Why the Military Must Learn to Love Silicon Valley
The U.S. Defense Department and big tech need each other—but getting along won’t be easy
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A cruise ship near the harbor of Ilulissat off the west coast of Greenland, north of the Arctic Circle, in August 2012. (Education Images/UIG via Getty Images) Stretched Thin on Thin Ice
With the Arctic melting and northern coast guards struggling to keep up, the next disaster is a matter of when, not if.
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The scene on the main road of Nawa-i-Barakzai district center in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Aug. 2. The Taliban held the area from October 2016 to July 2017. The Taliban’s Fight for Hearts and Minds
The militants’ new strategy is to out-govern the U.S.-backed administration in Kabul—and it’s working.
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1_infographic_lead Words of War
Decrypting nine new military programs that will change the face of battle.
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Wheeler_1 In Cyberwar, There are No Rules
Why the world desperately needs digital Geneva Conventions.
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Print The Rise of the Cyber-Mercenaries
What happens when private firms have cyberweapons as powerful as those owned by governments?
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A Rohingya refugee reacts while holding his dead son after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang on Oct. 9, 2017. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images) Western Officials Ignored Myanmar’s Warning Signs of Genocide
U.S. and U.N. diplomats overlooked atrocity amid hopes of democracy.
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Corruption_0725_twitterHP The One Thing Modern Voters Hate Most
Charges of corruption are toppling leaders at a growing clip. That's a good thing for global politics.
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(Nicholas Kamm/Johannes Simon/Aaron P. Bernstein/Mark Wilson/Alex Wong//AFP/Getty Images/Foreign Policy illustration) ‘It Was Nothing Short of Treasonous’
How people in the United States and Russia responded to the Helsinki summit.
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(Foreign Policy illustration/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images/Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images) Trump on Putin: The U.S. President’s Views, In His Own Words
A history of contradictory statements from 2015 to the present.
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Wheelwrights at Work, circa 1890. (Photo by Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images) There’s No Such Thing as a Stable Career
Job insecurity has always been a fact of life. Just ask chimney sweeps, lectors, and telephone operators.
