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What’s the best way to help extremely poor people? After 20 years, the evidence is in.

Is it really useful to “teach a person to fish” or should you just give them the damn fish already?

By Sigal Samuel

Russia’s territory in Europe is the latest source of Ukraine war tensions

A dispute over sanctions in Kaliningrad is a reminder of the security risks across Europe.

By Jen Kirby

Afghanistan’s staggering set of crises, explained

By Jen Kirby June 23

Ukraine and the problem of “futurelessness”

By Sean Illing June 21

Biden distanced himself from Saudi Arabia — until gas prices got bad

By Jonathan Guyer June 21

Why grain can’t get out of Ukraine

By Jen Kirby June 20

If aliens are calling, let it go to voicemail

By Bryan Walsh June 18

How the US is failing refugees, in one chart

By Sigal Samuel June 14

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s new investment fund deepens his ties to national security interests

By Whizy Kim June 9

Why some countries don’t want to pick a side in Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Jonathan Guyer June 9

Boris Johnson barely survives a challenge to his leadership

By Jen Kirby June 6

How Ukraine’s new weapons reflect a very different battlefield

By Ellen Ioanes June 4

100 days in, Russia’s war is now a brutal offensive in eastern Ukraine

By Jen Kirby June 3

The pollution from Russia’s war will poison Ukraine for decades

By Benji Jones June 2

What will the EU’s Russian oil ban do?

By Jen Kirby June 1

Underground hip-hop is banned in Egypt. Now, it’s the soundtrack to Marvel’s Moon Knight.

By Jonathan Guyer May 29

Countries are limiting food exports. It may make global hunger worse.

By Siobhan McDonough May 26

Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.

By Zack Beauchamp May 25

Why Biden’s off-the-cuff comment about defending Taiwan matters

By Jonathan Guyer May 23

The problem of global energy inequity, explained by American refrigerators

By Siobhan McDonough May 21

What Biden’s approach to Asia misses

By Jonathan Guyer May 20

The US just deepened its commitment to Ukraine by $40 billion

By Jen Kirby May 19

The European country where “replacement theory” reigns supreme

By Zack Beauchamp May 19

The developing Covid crisis in Beijing, explained

By Muizz Akhtar May 19

Finland and Sweden’s historic NATO bids, explained

By Jen Kirby May 17

What Mariupol’s fall means for Russia — and Ukraine

By Jen Kirby May 17

The Philippine election is the latest example of illiberalism’s popularity

By Zack Beauchamp May 17

The staggering amount of US military aid to Ukraine, explained in one chart

By Jonathan Guyer May 17

Lebanon is in political crisis. Sunday’s elections won’t change that.

By Ellen Ioanes May 15

Why Sri Lanka’s new PM isn’t the change the country needs

By Ellen Ioanes May 14

The killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, explained

By Jonathan Guyer May 13

The new Russian offensive in Ukraine isn’t going much better than the previous one

By Zack Beauchamp May 12

The extraordinary heat wave in India and Pakistan, explained

By Umair Irfan May 11

Could the Ukraine war spill over into Moldova?

By Jen Kirby May 10

The solution to “differential demography” is more migration

By Bryan Walsh May 9

The Biden experts waging war without weapons

By Jonathan Guyer May 9

The EU can’t quite get it together on a Russian oil embargo

By Ellen Ioanes May 7

How many people have died from the Covid-19 crisis?

By Umair Irfan May 5

Are sanctions against Russia working?

By Jen Kirby May 4

Was Russia’s decision to cut off natural gas exports a mistake?

By Natasha Ishak May 1

The economic crisis in Sri Lanka, explained

By Natasha Ishak April 30

Ron DeSantis is following a trail blazed by a Hungarian authoritarian

By Zack Beauchamp April 28

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