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The Economist
The Economist
20 Mar 2025


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International | The Telegram

The right way to fight nativists

A revealing new history of the cold-war crisis that inspired modern refugee law

EIGHT DECADES after the event, Janis Cecins cannot know whether the Soviet train guard who transformed his family’s destiny was being kind or dim. Either way, the soldier allowed Mr Cecins’s parents—a young Latvian couple being forcibly transported to the Soviet zone in occupied post-war Germany—to leave his train one night, on a promise to return in the morning. Mr Cecins’s parents skipped that appointment, and eventually found their way to an Allied-run camp for displaced persons (DPs). The pair were among a million or so civilians with no wish to return to their pre-war homes. The fate of those DPs led in time to the creation of the modern asylum system, including the Geneva convention of 1951, which bars states from returning refugees to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom.

President Reagan makes his weekly radio broadcast from the Voice of America studio in 1983

Donald Trump shoots his own global mouthpiece

The shutdown of VOA, RFE/RL and other broadcasters weakens America and supporters of democracy

Illustration of massive spy with glowing red eyes and an American flag patch has his hands around a group of four tiny spies in hats

Donald Trump v the spies of Five Eyes

Will America’s president damage the world’s most powerful intelligence pact?


Ukrainian soldiers walk past a Starlink satellite internet receiver in a woodland area in an undisclosed location, Ukraine.

Could Europe replace Starlink if America pulls the plug?

Only with something inferior to Elon Musk’s offering


Trump’s whims are overriding the national interest

Foreign-policy realists will struggle to explain America’s sharp turn

Europe thinks the unthinkable on a nuclear bomb

Poland wants co-operation with France on a nuclear deterrent. That could take many forms

NATO’s race against Russia to rearm

The alliance has three to four years to adopt AI and new tech