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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir
Africa

Russia is courting African states. The US shouldn't overreact.

There is room for mutually beneficial results for Washington and Moscow's interests in the Global South

Marjorie Taylor Greene Iran
Washington Politics

The vindication of Majorie Taylor Greene

Trump called her crazy and a traitor when she was just telling the truth: That Americans saw his Iran war and arming Israel a betrayal of 'America First'

El Salvador haiti
North America

Is Haiti becoming a front in a multinational conflict?

UN policing, plus private contractors and the US designating gangs terrorists mean this becoming a battle ground with diminishing hope for real local security

Kaja Kalls
Europe

Europeans got blue blinders in wake of midterm sweep

Western elites are tying the elections to Ukraine while ignoring the anti-Iran war sentiment that sent the GOP packing

Patrick Leahy is sworn in to Congress for the first time in 1975
Washington Politics

When the 'Watergate Babies' rode their own wave of anger

Swept into office in 1974, this cohort of Democrats led efforts to gut a rogue CIA, secret wars, and other abuses of executive power under Nixon

Melania Trump speaks on a panel
Europe

Three cheers for Melania Trump-led ceasefire in Ukraine

The first lady's successful gambit to open a humanitarian corridor in Oleshky shows how ending a war through diplomacy has to start somewhere