How Beijing Builds Leverage for Indefinite Competition; How the Houthis—and a New Civil War in Yemen—Could Upend the Post-Gaza Balance of Power; How America’s Weaponization of Ideology Could Backfire
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At the port in Qingdao, China, October 2025

China’s Long Economic War

How Beijing Builds Leverage for Indefinite Competition

By Zongyuan Zoe Liu

 

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Houthi fighters in Sanaa, Yemen, September 2025 

The Middle East’s Most Overlooked Threat

How the Houthis—and a New Civil War in Yemen—Could Upend the Post-Gaza Balance of Power

By April Longley Alley

 
Voters fill out their ballots at a polling site on Election Day in the New York mayoral election in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., November 4, 2025. 

How Liberal Democracy Can Survive an Age of Spiraling Crises

A Conversation With Daron Acemoglu

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A gathering of nationalist politicians in Mormant-sur-Vernisson, France, June 2025

The Paradox of Europe’s Trumpian Right

How America’s Weaponization of Ideology Could Backfire

By Ivan Krastev

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