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How China’s Belt and Road Initiative is changing
The many motivations behind Xi Jinping’s key foreign policy
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Why the Polish election campaign has been so vicious
A knife’s-edge vote has turned into a sword fight
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How powerful is Hamas?
Long politically dominant in Gaza, it has become better equipped militarily
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How America’s House of Representatives will choose a speaker
Jim Jordan is hoping to land the job—and end the chaos—on October 17th
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Why France has worked itself into a frenzy about bedbugs
The thought of the unpleasant critters is worse than the threat they pose
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Can Russia repeat its winter bombing of Ukraine’s electricity grid?
Estimates of its capacity to make missiles vary
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What happens if America’s government shuts down this weekend?
For starters, millions of people will not get paid
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What is America’s farm bill, and why does it matter?
It has transformed the agriculture industry and given millions of Americans food security
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Why Poland is halting its supply of weapons to Ukraine
A row over duty-free grain has escalated rapidly—but Poland’s government is also posturing
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Could the 14th Amendment bar Donald Trump from becoming president again?
Some conservative legal scholars think so—but the idea is a long shot
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What is Khalistan, the independent homeland some Sikhs yearn for?
The separatist movement is now largely propagated from abroad