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Ibrahim Alaguri / AP; Jim Rogash / Getty; … Then She Asked Me About Benghazi
I went to Harpers Ferry seeking escape, and discovered how far our shared reality has fractured.
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Horacio Villalobos / Corbis / Getty / The … The Path to Autocracy
A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary.
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Ray Stubblebine / Reuters The 9/11 Era Is Over
The coronavirus pandemic and a chapter of history that should have expired long ago
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Tom Brenner / Reuters How Trump Designed His White House to Fail
Every president chooses how to manage the flow of information. The consequences of Trump’s decisions are now becoming apparent.
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Wana News Agency / Reuters An Extraordinarily Dangerous Moment
To keep his promise to kill an achievement of Obama’s, Trump has been willing to break his promise to get us out of wars in the Middle East.
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Arinze Stanley What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?
A human-rights icon’s fall from grace in Myanmar
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Petros Giannakouris / AP A Fatal Abandonment of American Leadership
The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi drives home the consequences of the Trump administration’s refusal to champion democratic values around the globe.
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White House / Reuters Inside the White House During the Syrian 'Red Line' Crisis
We in the Obama administration stepped up to the brink of military action against Assad. And then, suddenly, we stepped back.
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Juan Carlos Ulate / Reuters Trump's Cuba Policy Will Fail
The architect of Obama's Cuba opening argues that the president’s rollback is a pointless mistake.
