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Flight has been belligerent. Why . Well take you inside what the chinese are thinking with evan osnos, the former china correspondent for the new yorker. And Angela Merkel runs germany. Janet yellen runs the fed. Hillary clinton could run the United States after the 2016 elections. How would the world be different if women ran it . I have a great panel, including tina brown and arianna huffington. But first, heres my take. Russias invasion of ukraine has brought to the fore an important debate about what kind of world we live in. Many critics charge that the Obama Administration has been blind...

Century we're living in. almost all of these critics ridicule john kerry's assertion that changing borders by force, as russia did, is 19th century behavior in the 21st century. well, here are the facts. the scholar mark zacker has tallied up changes of borders by force. something that was once quite common. since world war 1, he notes, it has been on a sharp decline, and in recent dedicates that decline has accelerated. before 1950 wars between nations would result in border changes, that is, annexations, 81% of the time. after 1950 that number dropped to 27%. in fact, since 1946 there are on...