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Settler violence in the West Bank undermines Israel’s security, its moral fabric and its global standing, argues Nimrod Novik
5 min read
Jeanne Shaheen and John Curtis, two US senators, explain how to keep them credible
From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain
A bilateral investment treaty is a way to find middle ground on sensitive sectors, write Max Baucus and Stephen Roach
4 min read
His every move to preserve power accelerates decay, writes a former senior official in the Russian government
Kennedy, Johnson and McNamara were private realists but chose the path of least resistance, writes Fredrik Logevall
Ranking candidates by order of preference would better reflect the will of the people, writes Eric Maskin
Enforcement has to be adapted to a changed world, argues Teresa Ribera
That means targeting mechanisms engineered to rewire the brain’s reward system, writes Marie Potel-Saville
We didn’t U-turn. The world changed, writes Indermit Gill, the bank’s chief economist
6 min read
Middle powers need to tread skilfully around the biggest blocs, writes Yvette Cooper
Societies urgently need to confront the ethics of prediction, writes Carissa Véliz
