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Sign In | Subscribe Ad-Free Issues & Trends Home Insights -- Monday, December 16 Saturday, December 14 Friday, December 13 Thursday, December 12 Wednesday, December 11 Tuesday, December 10 Monday, December 9 Set this view as default? Yes No Set this view as default? Yes No Jeremy Corbyn’s Crushing Defeat Economist What Happens When You Tell People to Eff Off and Join the Tories A. Hazarika, ES The New Conservatism Begins Today James Forsyth, Spectator Boris Johnson's Victory Is Exactly What the EU Wants Garvan Walshe, Foreign Policy How the Tories Can Keep the New Voters They Won David Davis, Conservative Home Why SNP and Tories Should Seek a Compromise The Scotsman Lessons From Translating '1984' Into Russian Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View How Boris Johnson’s Brexit Won Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker Will the Guilty Pay for Horror of Ceaucescu Orphanages? Shaun Walker, Guardian Making an Offer South Korea Can't Accept Eric Gomez, RealClearWorld Winding Down Sudan's Involvement in Yemen War G. Cafiero, Responsible Statecraft Meaning and Mayhem Roberto Saviano, New York Review of Books Economic Growth Is the Answer Michael Boskin, Project Syndicate Podcasts Rana Ayyub on India’s Crackdown on Muslims New Yorker Corbyn and Anti-Semitism Stephen Pollard with Foreign Policy Great Power Competition Center for Strategic and International Studies The Free Trade Dream of the '90s Is Dead Reason Research & Analysis The Afghanistan Papers Washington Post The Role of Geography in National Security Decision-Making TNSR Kazakhstan: Tested by Transition Chatham House How Is Disinformation Gaming Ad Tech? Global Disinformation Index More From Real Clear Videos Coronavirus: What Comes Next? Buzzfeed Secrets of the War in Afghanistan, Revealed Buzzfeed Why U.S.-China Trade War Won't End Soon Buzzfeed Seeing Divided Berlin as It Once Was Buzzfeed -- RealClearWorld Sunday AM Update RealClearWorld Saturday AM Update How Labour Lost the Culture War Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic The UK Election Should Serve as a Warning to Democrats Alex Berezow, National Interest Labour Must Ditch the Politics of the Sect Jonathan Freedland, Guardian The ‘Red Wall’ Has Fallen Brendan O'Neill, Spectator Unlike in Ukraine, Trump in China Takes U.S. Interests Into Account J. Healey, LAT We've Got a Trade Truce, Sort Of. Now What? Mark Gongloff, Bloomberg View Nationalisms Won Throughout Britain Sam Knight, New Yorker Jeremy Corbyn’s Crushing Defeat Economist Don't expect the Labour Party to move back to the centre quickly Read More What Happens When You Tell People to Eff Off and Join the Tories A. Hazarika , ES I knew things were going to be bad, but nothing could have prepared me for the scale of the Tory victory and the scale of Labour's defeat .... Read More The New Conservatism Begins Today James Forsyth , Spectator Elections should be carnivals of democracy, yet the campaign we have just been through has felt more like amateur dramatics at times –... Read More Boris Johnson's Victory Is Exactly What the EU Wants Garvan Walshe , Foreign Policy The endless Brexit saga has brought uncertainty, instability, and confusion to Brussels. Now European leaders can get on with business. Read More How the Tories Can Keep the New Voters They Won David Davis , Conservative Home Why SNP and Tories Should Seek a Compromise The Scotsman The Conservatives and SNP seem set for a fight over Scottish independence that would be in no one's interest – including their own. Read More Lessons From Translating '1984' Into Russian Leonid Bershidsky , Bloomberg View George Orwell is relevant again, in a new way, and his most famous book remains as suffocating as ever. Read More How Boris Johnson’s Brexit Won Isaac Chotiner , New Yorker David Runciman, a professor of politics at Cambridge University, analyzes the election results and discusses its lessons for center-left... Read More Will the Guilty Pay for Horror of Ceaucescu Orphanages? Shaun Walker , Guardian By 1989, when the dictator was killed, up to 20,000 had died in Romania’s children’s homes. Now criminal cases may... Read More Making an Offer South Korea Can't Accept Eric Gomez , RealClearWorld Winding Down Sudan's Involvement in Yemen War G. Cafiero , Responsible Statecraft Following years of failed strategies in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is attempting to gradually wind down its operations in the country through... Read More Meaning and Mayhem Roberto Saviano , New York Review of Books A frequent part of mafia rituals is the kiss. After a Youth of Honor has been baptized, he makes the rounds of the other associates, kissing... Read More Economic Growth Is the Answer Michael Boskin , Project Syndicate While rising inequality – a problem that the data suggest is real but overstated – has moved to the center of public debate, the... Read More Podcasts Rana Ayyub on India’s Crackdown on Muslims New Yorker Dexter Filkins talks to the embattled Indian journalist about their time reporting together in Kashmir and the Indian ruling party's violent... Read More Corbyn and Anti-Semitism Stephen Pollard with Foreign Policy How allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party became a central issue in Britain's election campaign. Read More Great Power Competition Center for Strategic and International Studies The Free Trade Dream of the '90s Is Dead Reason What does President Donald Trump's latest tariff lunacies vis-à-vis Brazil and Argentina tell us about the current and previous... Read More Research & Analysis The Afghanistan Papers Washington Post For nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan, U.S. leaders have sounded a constant refrain: We are making progress. They were not, documents... Read More The Role of Geography in National Security Decision-Making TNSR Being able to "think in space" is a crucial tool for decision-makers, but one that is often deemphasized. In order to improve its ability to... Read More Kazakhstan: Tested by Transition Chatham House A partial handover of political power through takes Kazakhstan into uncharted territory. Read More How Is Disinformation Gaming Ad Tech? Global Disinformation Index More From Real Clear Videos Coronavirus: What Comes Next? Buzzfeed Secrets of the War in Afghanistan, Revealed Buzzfeed Why U.S.-China Trade War Won't End Soon Buzzfeed Seeing Divided Berlin as It Once Was Buzzfeed -- RealClearWorld Sunday AM Update RealClearWorld Saturday AM Update How Labour Lost the Culture War Yascha Mounk , The Atlantic The broad socioeconomic coalition that once buoyed Labour has broken in two, leaving the party shattered. Read More The UK Election Should Serve as a Warning to Democrats Alex Berezow , National Interest The Brits can envision a post-Brexit future; they cannot envision a post-capitalist one. Read More Labour Must Ditch the Politics of the Sect Jonathan Freedland , Guardian A 1970s hard-left clique led the party into a dead end – and it's the poor and vulnerable who will pay the price, says Guardian... Read More The ‘Red Wall’ Has Fallen Brendan O'Neill , Spectator The ‘red wall' has fallen. Brick by brick. Almost every bit of it. Seats held by Labour for decades have been seized by the Tories. To... Read More Unlike in Ukraine, Trump in China Takes U.S. Interests Into Account J. Healey , LAT The China deal shows how Trump can promote the national interest as well as his personal political interests — unlike his actions on... Read More We've Got a Trade Truce, Sort Of. Now What? Mark Gongloff , Bloomberg View It's not that big, or even much of a deal, and wasn't worth the pain. But it's better than nothing. Read More Nationalisms Won Throughout Britain Sam Knight , New Yorker Brexit and Johnson's populism have flourished in England. But the wider United Kingdom looks like a creaking entity threatening to come apart. Read More Foreign Policy Corner The West Remembers Why It Liked U.S. Leadership Those who grumbled about Pax Americana are being confronted with the alternative. Read More More From Forei...