Politics
Reporting on power, policy and the forces shaping public life.
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The Price of Impunity
Washington’s campaign against the International Criminal Court exposes the uneasy limits of international justice.
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The Limits of a New Opening
North Korea fires more than 10 short-range missiles as Trump seeks to reopen diplomacy with Kim Jong Un.
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The Fault Beneath Flores
A shallow rupture on the Flores Back-Arc Thrust reveals how tectonic stress becomes shaking, tsunami and cascading disaster.
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The Island at the Edge
Putin’s visit to Iturup turns a decades-old territorial dispute into a sharper test of Russia-Japan relations.