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By setting a few priorities, the top leaders of the United States and China may have cleared some misunderstandings and reduced mistrust. Still, a new type of relationship for the two countries remains “aspirational,” suggests Robert Manning, senior fellow of the Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security at the Atlantic Council. Barack Obama and Xi Jinping met for eight hours in...

Privacy advocates have long been concerned about the US National Security Agency collecting data on US citizens and foreigners. Recent reports that Verizon and likely other US telecommunications firms are handing over phone logs stir new concerns about surveillance activities started under the George W. Bush administration. Individuals who use digital devices leave digital trails, reports Michael...

Parks are civic gathering places. Plans to turn Istanbul’s Gezi Park and Taksim Square into a shopping mall were weighted with symbolism – galvanizing protests and representing what “seems an effort to erase the face of the old, majestic Istanbul, which has largely disappeared in recent years in favor of shallow, gaudy, stupefied consumerism,” writes Yale professor Seyla Benhabib in an opinion...