https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AOY-um1CxvQ/ian-buruma RSS for Node Fri, 08 May 2026 00:57:10 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-14/in-us-uk-and-israel-radicals-have-taken-governments-hostage https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-14/in-us-uk-and-israel-radicals-have-taken-governments-hostage Sat, 14 Jan 2023 08:00:12 GMT WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 13: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) (C) attends a news conference following a GOP caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center February 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. McCarthy said that he supports the framework of a bipartisan spending deal that would avert another partial federal government shutdown but is waiting to read the bill before deciding on whether he would vote for it. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-14/uk-brexit-vote-was-more-costly-mistake-than-trump-election https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-14/uk-brexit-vote-was-more-costly-mistake-than-trump-election Wed, 14 Dec 2022 05:00:17 GMT WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 15: DNC welcomes Donald Trump to the 2024 GOP Primary by driving a mobile billboard around Mar-A-Lago on November 15, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images for DNC) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-12/iranian-women-s-anti-government-protests-won-t-be-the-last https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-12/iranian-women-s-anti-government-protests-won-t-be-the-last Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:00:04 GMT TOPSHOT - A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in support of Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic's morality police, on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul on September 20, 2022. - Amini, 22, was on a visit with her family to the Iranian capital when she was detained on September 13 by the police unit responsible for enforcing Iran's strict dress code for women, including the wearing of the headscarf in public. She was declared dead on September 16 by state television after having spent three days in a coma. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP) (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-13/europe-s-right-wing-parties-are-attracting-women-and-minorities https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-13/europe-s-right-wing-parties-are-attracting-women-and-minorities Thu, 13 Oct 2022 04:00:10 GMT BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 04: Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng during a visit to a construction site for a medical innovation campus in Birmingham, on day three of the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham on October 04, 2022 in Birmingham, England. This year the Conservative Party Conference will be looking at "Getting Britain Moving" with more jobs and higher salaries. However, delegates are arriving at the conference as the party lags 33 points behind Labour in the opinion polls. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-15/sanctions-won-t-turn-ordinary-russians-against-vladimir-putin-s-ukraine-war https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-15/sanctions-won-t-turn-ordinary-russians-against-vladimir-putin-s-ukraine-war Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:00:02 GMT Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the State Council Presidium on the development of the national tourism industry at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok on September 6, 2022. 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A 47 strong Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet attended the Fleet review exercises. (Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-02/ukraine-crisis-why-vladimir-putin-draws-support-from-far-left-and-far-right https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-02/ukraine-crisis-why-vladimir-putin-draws-support-from-far-left-and-far-right Sat, 02 Apr 2022 07:00:00 GMT TOPSHOT - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a concert marking the eighth anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on March 18, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-11/ukraine-invasion-why-the-west-should-arm-the-resistance https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-11/ukraine-invasion-why-the-west-should-arm-the-resistance Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:00:21 GMT Ukrainian servicemen are at work to receive the delivery of FGM-148 Javelins, American man-portable anti-tank missile provided by US to Ukraine as part of a military support, at Kyiv's airport Boryspil on February 11,2022, amid the crisis linked with the threat of Russia's invasion. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)