World politics Archives

World politics

The Painted Protest

by Dean Kissick,

How politics destroyed contemporary art

Above Politics

by Hari Kunzru,

For all those involved in the publication and dissemination of ideas, freedom of expression is the foundation on which our work depends. Like many writers, I have campaigned to defend…

Empire Burlesque

by Daniel Bessner,

What comes after the American Century?

Under the Surface

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

One morning in September, a dapper Frenchman seated next to me in the garden of the Château de Tocqueville gestured solemnly at the front page of Le Monde, the house…

The Striking Gesture

by Kevin Baker,

“I was not elected to do small things,” President Donald Trump said upon announcing his new Middle East peace plan at the end of January. Trump was not elected to…

Tearing Up the Map

by Andrew J. Bacevich, Hamid Dabashi, Hassan Hassan, Kori Schake, Dominique de Villepin, Paula J. Dobriansky,

Toward a post-Obama foreign policy

Game On

by Andrew Cockburn,

East vs. West, again

Under Western Eyes

by John Gray,

By John Gray, adapted from an article in the October 2014 issue of Prospect. Gray is the author of many books, including False Dawn, Straw Dogs, and The Silence of…

Secretary of Nothing

by Andrew Cockburn,

John Kerry and the myth of foreign policy

The Mad Mullah Myth

by Flynt Lawrence Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett,

The dangers of misunderstanding Iran

Here Comes Everybuddy

by Andy Merrifield,