| Ukraine votes: The incumbent, the populist, or the comedian? Posted: 28 Mar 2019 12:54 PM PDT ![Ukraine votes: The incumbent, the populist, or the comedian?]( "Ukraine votes: The incumbent, the populist, or the comedian?") Barring a majority winner, which polls indicate is unlikely, the two candidates who receive the largest plurality of votes will head into a decisive April 21 second round. There are currently three front-runners, and which make it into that final round will determine the tone of debate over Ukraine's way forward. "Nothing has changed in this country since the Maidan," says Pavel Movchan, a former deputy of the Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament.
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| Battle of Britain’s history: How the myth of WWII shaped Brexit Posted: 28 Mar 2019 11:41 AM PDT ![Battle of Britain's history: How the myth of WWII shaped Brexit]( "Battle of Britain's history: How the myth of WWII shaped Brexit") To even the most casual fan of World War II movies, the propeller-driven Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft are instantly familiar. Today these two planes rest on a verdant lawn in front of a red-brick chapel that commemorates the pilots and crew that flew in the Battle of Britain and other air campaigns, including those that never came back – 454 Allied airmen in the Battle of Britain alone. The modest chapel is bracketed by a new building, the Biggin Hill Memorial Museum, that speaks to an abiding national interest, even obsession, in that time.
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| World politics in the age of deceptively easy answers Posted: 28 Mar 2019 11:35 AM PDT ![World politics in the age of deceptively easy answers]( "World politics in the age of deceptively easy answers") One day, we may look back at this time of anger and instability in world politics as the age of deceptively easy answers. What matters most, if we're to understand the staying power of this trend, is the inability of time-honored institutions and traditions of democratic government to do much about it. Recommended: Mueller report stokes political rift.
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| Defeating Islamic State with justice, not just guns Posted: 28 Mar 2019 11:28 AM PDT ![Defeating Islamic State with justice, not just guns]( "Defeating Islamic State with justice, not just guns") Much of the world barely took notice last weekend when the last stronghold of Islamic State fighters finally fell. The capture of a small village in Syria by local Kurdish forces marked an end to a four-year international campaign to destroy the group's self-declared caliphate, which once stretched across large parts of Iraq and Syria. The victorious Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) asked that some 900 foreign ISIS fighters be tried in an international tribunal for horrific crimes against ethnic and religious minorities, such as the Yazidis.
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