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Explaining international politics, and especially the fight between autocrats and democrats in the world today.

Newsletter on international relations with focus on democracy, authoritarianism, and the current Russo-Ukraine War. By Stanford University professor and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

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Thinking about...

By Timothy Snyder

Opening the future by understanding the past.

Analysis of authoritarianism and of the current Russo-Ukrainian War by Yale University historian Timothy Snyder

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Lucid

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat

A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Insightful daily analysis that places current news into context of the historical struggle for democracy. By Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson

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