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Trump’s national-security adviser unveiled a new strategy designed to counter Beijing’s growing influence on the continent.
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DNA tests can have a placebo effect.
The Bigger Failure Exposed by Jazmine Headley’s Arrest
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What Donald Trump and Dick Cheney Got Wrong About America
We allowed an important idea—American exceptionalism—to be hijacked and misused. Now we need to rescue that idea and let it guide America at home and abroad.
2018: The Year in Volcanic Activity
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The Liberal Arts May Not Survive the 21st Century -
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The Gods That Will Fail -
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The Real Roots of American Rage -
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He Served the Longest Sentence of Any Innocent U.S. Inmate -
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America Needs to Restore Dignity of Work -
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Does It Matter Where You Go to College? -
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Serving Trump Revealed Who John Kelly Always Was
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