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For decades, Afghanistan has been everybody’s business and no one’s responsibility. Other powers, big and small, pursued their own agendas there, with little regard for the country’s customs or aspirations. But now that the Taliban has upended the status quo, the question of Afghanistan’s trajectory and what it portends for the region as a whole is more pressing than ever. …
Big politics is still primarily the realm of alpha males, especially when it comes to interactions between Russia and the United States, which have thousands of nuclear-tipped rockets pointed at one another. But at this week’s bilateral summit in Geneva, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden seemed to have put macho politics aside and even agreed that they bear responsibility for managing the relationship between their countries. …
The ‘Jews running the world’ may be one of the dirtiest conspiracies for some, but not for our guest today. A scholar of Jewish history, he maintains that Jews are indeed overrepresented in many key occupations and played a vital role in all major pursuits of the 20th century – from capitalism and liberalism to nationalism and socialism. …
