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Ukraine’s volunteer spirit buoys its fight against Russia

19 Jun 2024

As evening falls, the streets are mostly dark in Ukraine’s capital. Russia has been systematically destroying the country’s national power grid as Western allies have dawdled over providing promised air...

President Biden must make a decision on Ukraine

20 Mar 2023

As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its second year, more and more Americans are asking when it will end. The morally correct response, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insists, is...

World has seen largest shifts in geopolitical power

07 Nov 2021

The world is changing faster than our sluggish political leaders — let alone the public — can manage. The COVID-19 virus and climate change move far more quickly than...

‘My soul is wounded and it will never heal!’

28 Aug 2021

In the wake of the suicide bombs at Kabul airport by Daesh terrorists, I must pay tribute to those Americans who have been helping to rescue endangered Afghans. That...

Afghan female activists on Taliban hit list need US help

07 Aug 2021

I wrote recently about an Afghan human rights activist who ran shelters for abused women but was forced by Taliban advances to flee her home. She is now in hiding...

Much of the developing world struggles on vaccination as many Americans refuse to take the jab

31 Jul 2021

As the United States wrestles with how to curb the spread of the COVID-19 delta variant — and President Joe Biden launches a push to get federal workers vaccinated —...

A lesson for Americans from China’s shutdown of Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper

26 Jun 2021

As Senate Republicans were blocking a bill to expand voting rights for Americans, the Chinese government was destroying Apple Daily, the pro-democracy tabloid that campaigned for greater voting rights in...

The kingmaker was a Palestinian citizen of Israel

06 Jun 2021

Something momentous happened in Israel on Wednesday that could have a major impact on Jewish-Arab relations. I don’t just mean the ousting of the far right Israeli Prime Minister...

Don’t give up on us: Afghan girls and women in grave danger when US troops leave

29 May 2021

“Don’t abandon us!” That’s the message I’m getting from brave, educated Afghan women — as the Pentagon advances the date for the final troop withdrawal from Afghanistan to mid-July. ...

Alaska exchange exposes cracks in US-China ties

24 Mar 2021

The ugly verbal spat between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and top Chinese officials who met last Thursday in Anchorage, Alaska, laid bare the future of US-China relations. Most...

Trudy Rubin

Rubin is a foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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