“Pro-immigration advocates should lead with comprehensive immigration reform as a way to restore order,” writes John Austin in TIME.
"No Brazilian leader has been so effusively pro-miner—or anti-Indigenous—as the former army captain and gold-prospecting hobbyist Bolsonaro,” writes Rob Muggah.
There was no way for Blinken’s Beijing trip to go on as planned and not focus inordinately on the balloon incident, argues Paul Heer.
Ethan Kessler weighs in on US military preparedness to deal with any potential Chinese aggression toward Taiwan.
Russia has allied with Iran to work around sanctions on both countries. Ethan Kessler discusses on Deep State Radio.
China’s balloon was not a “real strategic threat,” says Bruce Jentleson. “Our satellites overfly China all the time and theirs overfly us.”
"In the case of Putin, economic losses only matter if he himself cares about such losses," Paul Poast argues.
Deborah Amos, Bobby Ghosh, and Philip Stephens join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
Just weeks after his return to power, the Netanyahu government threatens democracy.
The fallout from the removal of President Pedro Castillo has revealed a young democracy in dire straits.
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