As Davos returns, we ask in what practical ways it will help to address the world’s problems. James Rodgers and Allison Kaplan Sommer discuss Russia and Belarus’s joint air-force drills, the threat to Israel’s independent judiciary and Rishi Sunak’s proposal for a “free speech tsar”. Plus: a new book puts the efficacy of sanctions to the test.

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