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Politics

Is Walter Mondale-style liberalism back?

While he never reached the presidency, Mondale’s life in politics offers a unique prism for understanding the plight of American liberalism and how politics changed over five decades.
Washington Post
Raul Castro at lectern

Latin America and the Caribbean

Cuba’s latest inflection point

While many hoped that former President Barack Obama’s détente would lead to greater freedoms for civil society, in reality little in U.S. policy at the time demanded it, and so President Joe Biden is right to take note and chart it more cautiously.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Foreign Affairs

A Review of "The Road Less Traveled"

In his review of Philip Zelikow's "The Road Less Traveled," Lawrence D. Freedman observes that policymakers of the time could not have been "aware of the difference that an early deal might have made, perhaps sparing the world the later traumas associated with the rise of Bolshevism in Russia and Nazism in Germany."
Philip Zelikow