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Why It’s So Hard for America to End Its Wars
In March, General Kenneth (Frank) McKenzie, Jr., an Alabama-born marine who commands U.S. forces in the Middle East and South…
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How Can We Continue to Keep Schools Relatively Safe from the Coronavirus?
In late March, New York’s public high schools reopened for in-person instruction. Elementary schools have been offering some in-person instruction…
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Have the Democrats Begun a New Era of Big Government?
Judging from last year’s Democratic primaries, few would have believed that former Vice-President Joe Biden would be leading the Democratic…
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What Alexey Navalny Is Experiencing in Prison
The Russian state is making a slow spectacle of crushing Alexey Navalny and his organization. The opposition politician is in…
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The Movement to Exclude Trans Girls from Sports
A spectre is haunting girls’ sports. It is the spectre of transgender athletes. About fifty different bills pending in more…
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The Historians Under Attack for Exploring Poland’s Role in the Holocaust
Two Polish historians of the Holocaust, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, are fighting a court ruling that pronounced them guilty…
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How Biden Rattled Putin
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have been having an unusually lively exchange. On Wednesday, in a televised interview, ABC’s George…
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Trump and the Trapped Country
Before the storming of the Capitol, it seemed as if Donald Trump might leave the White House the way he…
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The Stimulus Is Only the Start
Perhaps we should be grateful for Joseph Tipaldo. He was, by all accounts, an awful man. But it was his…
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Trump’s Strategy for Returning to Power Is Already Clear
Viktor Orbán became the Prime Minister of Hungary in 1998. Four years later, with a record number of Hungarians turning…
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