19 hours ago · It was 2014, and I was standing in the ruins of Donetsk airport, when a Russian-backed rebel commander launched into what seemed like an oddly academic lecture. Between bursts of artillery fire, he explained an American political science concept: the Overton Window – a theory that describes the ...

4 days ago · “I don’t think it’s particularly surprising that someone with Musk’s particular brand of grievance politics would gravitate to the AfD’s brand of grievance politics,” Erica told me, “but it does make me wonder if it will give license to other authoritarian movements to more vocally reject movements to reconcile with the past.”

2 days ago · And this is bad, because – partly owing to U.S. diplomatic clout, and partly owing to the global role of the dollar – tackling financial crime or tax evasion without leadership from Washington DC has always proved hard/impossible.