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General view of a weed / marijuana shop - 7th Heaven on Koh Chang Island in Trat province. Koh Chang is a popular tourist resort island situated about 350 km south east of the capital, Bangkok, Thailand. (Paul Lakatos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why Thailand's weed battles matter

Niko Vorobyov
A vendor with an umbrella over his head talks on mobile phone as he wipes his face with a cloth on a hot summer day in Varanasi on May 27, 2024. (NIHARIKA KULKARNI/AFP via Getty Images)

We need a national climate plan — now

John J. Berger - TomDispatch.com
Rare Northern white rhinos in Laikipia Savanna (Getty Images/Manoj Shah)

Rhinos are a story of survival and hope

Assaf Levy
China balloon bubble about to burst (Getty Images/sizsus)

China's Great Leap Backward

Joe Tauke
Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam (R) shakes hands with Professor Pericles Lewis (C), president of Yale-NUS college after officiating the inauguration ceremony to mark the start of the Yale-NUS College while other officials look on in SIngapore on August 27, 2013. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Yale's Singapore venture failed

Jim Sleeper
A worker carries out sanitation operations for the Coronavirus emergency in Piazza dei Miracoli near to the Tower of Pisa in a deserted town on March 17, 2020 in Pisa, Italy. | Medical staff wearing protective clothing take test samples for the COVID-19 coronavirus from a foreign passenger at a virus testing booth outside Incheon international airport, west of Seoul, on April 1, 2020. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How the West blew it on the pandemic

Josef Bouska
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, the moon is seen in its waxing gibbous stage as it rises near the Empire State Building, in New York. On Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York issues its Empire State manufacturing index for November. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) (AP)

Could COVID-19 bring down the US empire?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies - Independent Media Institute
Jesse Watters on The Five (Fox News)

Fox host makes racist coronavirus claim

Matthew Rozsa
FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo, a Chinese boy cycles past cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China. Led by cutbacks in China and India, construction of new coal-fired power plants is falling worldwide, improving chances climate goals can be met despite earlier pessimism, three environmental groups said Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) (AP)

Coal isn’t dying. It moved to Asia

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
China's President Xi Jinping (bottom) attends a welcoming ceremony for Colombia's President Ivan Duque (not pictured) outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 31, 2019. (Photo by WANG ZHAO / AFP) (Photo credit should read WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images) (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty)

More like a couple of Asian decades

Marshall Auerback - Independent Media Institute
Donald Trump drinks during a special gala celebration dinner for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Getty/Athit Perawongmetha)

Trump: Clueless and self-absorbed

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport

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Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are greeted by Crown Prince Naruhito, left rear, and Crown Princess Masako, right rear, as they prepare to leave for Vietnam at the Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) (AP)

A new dawn for Japan's diplomacy

Shihoko Goto - The Globalist
(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Trump's foreign political relations

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
Thomas Friedman (AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Thomas Friedman's crazy bad economics

Jim Naureckas
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

North Korea lashes out at Trump, U.S.

Taylor Link
Donald Trump; Xi Jinping (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump's policy: Make China great again

David Cay Johnston
Fire smokes billow from residences as a coastal area is flooded by waters after a tsunami in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture (state), Japan, Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP/Kyodo News)

Fukushima: case closed?

Franck Guarnieri - The Conversation
North Korean Troops (Getty/Kim Won-Jin)

Hope in Korea, believe it or not

Patrick Lawrence
Kim Jong-Un (Getty/STR)

Nuclear North Korea? Not a bad thing

Patrick Lawrence
Donald Trump drinks during a special gala celebration dinner for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Getty/Athit Perawongmetha)

Trump's foreign policy? There isn't any

Patrick Lawrence
Rodrigo Duterte; Donald Trump (Getty/Noel Celis)

Trump's appalling Asian vacation

Heather Digby Parton
James Clapper; John Brennan; James Comey (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Jacquelyn Martin)

A little less love for the spies, maybe

Alyona Minkovski
Vladimir Putin; Donald Trump (AP/Evan Vucci/Salon)

Trump's Asian disgrace: A new low?

Heather Digby Parton
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