Canny coalition-building fuelled the ascendancy of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. But does his chosen successor represent continuity or change?

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This latest chapter in the Middle East’s bloody history raises a basic question: what is the end game? As Israel contemplates its response to Iranian missile attacks that have exposed the limitations ...

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Mao Zedong, the autodidact son of well-to-do peasants, was rough-spoken, ruthless, mercurial and volatile. Zhou Enlai, the well-educated scion of a fallen but patrician family, was suave, wily, ...