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For survivors in the community, the prospect of going home is disappearing because of political inaction.
Foreign Affairs has recently published a number of articles on how the United States should engage with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, extremist forces within the regime, how the West can help ordinary Afghans, and the fate of the country’s women.
Compared to the U.S., where the attacks of January 6, 2021, seem to only have deepened polarization and increased political risk, the January 8 insurgency in Brazil thus seems to have left fewer scars and can be seen as the apex of political instability.
Ammon Bundy was ordered to pay an Idaho hospital tens of millions of dollars after leading armed protests there. But the antigovernment extremist might not pay the fine.
Prigozhin’s media empire was conceived as a contractor that would perform functions for the state while remaining under external management. But it turns out that receiving billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money is no guarantee of either effectiveness or loyalty.
After Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian elites acted as if the war had not really changed anything on the home front.
It is becoming increasingly difficult for the Kremlin to sweep unwelcome developments under the carpet. The war has begun to change Russia, and profound internal shifts are likely underway—in Putin’s regime, in the elites’ perception of Putin, and in the public’s attitude toward the war.
The aspiration of former Ukrainian politicians working in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to be treated as equals by the Kremlin has not been realized, and the unpredictability of the ongoing war makes them increasingly vulnerable.
The Lebanese Forces have the largest Christian bloc in parliament, but you wouldn’t know that from their policy of splendid isolation.
Despite a story of overall progress, women’s rights advocates around the world are sounding the alarm.