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In Defense of Denmark

With right-wing parties on the rise in Sweden and Germany, the restrictive immigration policies of cold-hearted Copenhagen are beginning to look awfully sensible.

James KirchickJames Kirchick is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative, correspondent for the Daily Beast, and columnist for Tablet Magazine. His book, “The End of Europe,” is forthcoming from Yale University Press this fall.

Argument

Hiking the ‘Rat Tracks,’ Hunting for al-Shabab

Meet the khat-chewing, rifle-toting volunteer army that forms Kenya’s first line of defense against the Somali terrorist group.

Will SwansonWill Swanson is a photojournalist covering East Africa.

Feature

GOP Donald Trump Delivers Foreign Policy Speech in Washington

The Cable

Exclusive: Think Tank Fires Employee Who Questioned Ties to Donald Trump

The Center for the National Interest, a Washington-based think tank, has fired one of its fellows after he criticized the organization’s decision to host Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump for a widely publicized speech.

Passport

Transgender Bolivians Get an Unlikely Bit of Good News

Bolivia is on the verge of passing a law that will allow trans people to legally change their name and gender.

Passport

Watch: Chaos Erupts In Green Zone As Protesters Breach Defenses

Protesters breached Baghdad's Green Zone once again, in defiance of the prime minister.

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Speaks At Bay Area Council Outlook Conference

Argument

The Shifty Linguistics of ‘Capital’

Banks and financial institutions are playing fast and loose with what constitutes “cash on hand” in case of a crisis. But there’s an even better phrase for this: recipe for disaster.

President Obama Meets With King Mohammed VI Of Morocco

Shadow Government

How the State Department’s Human Rights Report Treats Friends — and Adversaries

The authors of the reports should take into account the nature of America's relationships to countries that come in for criticism.

Podcasts

The E.R.

The Washington Insider Who Believes He’s an Outsider

What the profile of Ben Rhodes tells us about ego and politics inside the Obama administration.
The E.R.

Examining Sy-raq

For this week’s discussion on Syria and Iraq, The E.R. team asks "Is the worst yet to come?"
The E.R.

Should Britain Stay, or Should It Go?

With the U.K. on the verge of saying “piss off” to Brussels, the great European democratic project hangs in the balance.
The Backstory

An Abandoned Daughter Returns to China

Editors Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and David Wertime talk to Jenna Cook about how the quest to find her birth mother captivated China — and why she finally decided to write her…
Global Thinkers

How to Build a Media Industry from Scratch

From telenovelas to Sesame Street, 2013 Global Thinkers Noura al Kaabi and Saad Mohseni debate the importance of cultural imports in a localized entertainment industry.
The E.R.

Is Brazil the Chicago of Latin America?

We shouldn’t be surprised that Brazil — and other countries in the BRICS — is dealing with the stumbles and falls of an emerging economy. Meaningful progress takes decades.
The E.R.

Defending Donald Trump … Again?

Why playing devil’s advocate with the Republican front-runner’s rhetoric eventually leads back to the source of the problem — Washington.
Global Thinkers

Why Migrants Can No Longer Be Considered Society’s “Fringe”

2015 Global Thinker Tobias Zielony and writer Anna Badkhen debate how the West stereotypes—to dangerous effect—the Global South.