Slate: Gregory Feifer on Biden and Belarus
The Biden administration can score an easy win by ending Alexander Lukashenko's illegal reign, ICWA executive director Gregory Feifer says.
The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on H.R. McMaster
President Trump’s former appointee has turned his time in the White House into profits.
Foreign Affairs: Matt Chitwood on ending poverty in China
Beijing says it will wipe out poverty by the end of this year, but only when poverty is defined as extreme and rural.
Foreign Affairs: Cheng Li on China’s hopes for a thaw
China feels cautiously optimistic President-elect Joe Biden can lower—or at least pause—fast-escalating tensions between the countries.
LRB: Pooja Bhatia on Black liberation
Three books examine the enormous impact of the Haitian Revolution.
Newslines: Neri Zilber on Mahmoud Abbas’s possible successor
Former top official Mohammed Dahlan's name is being floated as more flexible replacement for President Mahmoud Abbas.
WPR: Karina Piser on French schools and radicalization
France's teachers have been charged with instilling "republican values" in public schools. They are finding it an overwhelming task.
Thomas Goltz publishes new book on Turkey
Reflections on "40 years of an intimate association with a wayward US Eurasian ally."
Foreign Policy: Neri Zilber on Israel’s election lessons
As Americans await final results in their presidential campaign, they would do well to learn from Israel's hard-won experience on surviving uncertainty.
NYT: Eve Fairbanks on Trumpers with doubts
There's a growing group of Donald Trump supporters who wish, privately, he would just go away.