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International Law Won’t Save Us in the Iran War

The US-Israeli strikes on Iran quickly abandoned their legal justifications, shifting from “imminent threat” to managing an Israeli decision that Washington chose not to prevent. The core concept of imminence... Read full article

Noga Glucksam - April 12, 2026

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Asia-Pacific
The Iran War is a Reminder: Decarbonize Fast, But Do Not Gamble with Energy Security
by Mehmet Yasin Bozkuş
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A Brief History of Dik: Indo-European Linguistics and Counting Rhymes, or, Dik + Pimp = Bumfit
by Dylan Black
Central & South Asia
Deal Under Pressure: What India Really Gains from the Trade Agreement with the US
by Vijay Kumar Dhar
Politics
The UN’s New AI Panel: This Parade Is Going to Need a Big Shovel
by Hugh Dugan

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Easter and Passover Explained: Two Stories, One Crossing

by Liam Roman, Casey Herrmann & Roberta Artemisia Campani

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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

by Pocket Dynamo, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

by Vikram K. Malkani, Atul Singh & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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The Story of World War II

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique & Anton Schauble

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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

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The Agenbite of Diplomacy: Are Negotiations Still a Thing?

Language sometimes betrays us. Politicians routinely betray language. Trump has perfected a trend he didn’t initiate: the discrediting of diplomacy...

The Fog of Foreknowledge Versus the Clarity of War

Two early-century warnings — Wesley Clark’s revelation of a Pentagon regime-change plan and William Burns’s memo...

Peter Thiel: The Antichrist Hunter of Silicon Valley

One journalist describes Peter Thiel as a fan of the Bible. Columnist Ross Douthat calls him...

Beware Hubris: Trump’s Iran War Has an Ozymandias Flavor

Never short of hyperinflated self-praise and self-adulation, US President Donald...

by Alan Waring

The Supreme Court of India Has No Spine

by Rishi A. Kumar

Iran Triggers Hormuz Chokepoint Crisis and Risk of Global Stagflation

by Atul Singh & Manu Sharma

The Agency of Middle Powers in a Fragmented and Polarized World

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FO Podcasts: The Muslim Brotherhood Explained — Origins, Ideology and Global Influence

In this episode of FO Podcasts, Atul Singh and Cynthia Farahat examine the Muslim Brotherhood’s origins, debating whether it evolved or remained ideologically consistent since 1928. Farahat challenges the distinction between gradualism and militancy, portraying the movement as structurally and ideologically unified across time and...

by Cynthia Farahat & Atul Singh

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