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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters Seven Questions That Need Answers Before Any Attack on Iran
President Trump’s threats of retaliation for strikes on Saudi oil facilities seem premature.
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Patrick Semansky / AP Speak Up, John Bolton
The national-security professionals who have left this administration owe the American people the truth about the president.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters Four Lessons From Israel’s Clash With Tlaib and Omar
The best way for Israel to strengthen its hand is not by waging war to the utmost against its opponents, but by maximizing the number and range of its friends.
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Sarah Silbiger / Reuters The Shame and Disgrace Will Linger
On Saturday, President Trump spread a conspiracy theory accusing the Clintons of murdering Jeffrey Epstein.
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Mark Peterson / Redux The American Exception
The United States is not the only nation to suffer from white supremacism, but in America, it has proved uniquely deadly.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters What If They’re Not Coming for the Jews This Time?
Trump poses a new test for the American Jewish community.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Is Baiting Democrats
The president is trying to divide the House caucus and force it to fight the election on his terms. So far, it’s working.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump's Recessional
The president’s speech existed only to provide a reason why he needed to stand in one place long enough for five waves of warplanes to cross the sky.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters America’s Asylum System Is Profoundly Broken
Until the United States establishes and articulates clear rules, the crisis at the border will continue.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Second Debate Gives Democrats Three Reasons to Worry
They won’t accept success as an answer.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump’s Astonishing Confession
The president said he would accept information from foreign countries if it were to help his presidential campaign.
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AP The Ghosts of D-Day
The battle is long over, but the fight against extremist illiberal politics is not.
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Patrick Semansky / AP No, the Gun Culture Won’t Always Win
After another mass shooting, this time in Virginia Beach, the world looks bleak. But hope is on the horizon.
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Reuters The Wisest Remedy Is Not Impeachment
If the Democrats move ahead, it will backfire.
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Alex Wong / Getty What the Mueller Report Actually Said
The special counsel pointed back to the words of his report. Here are its key findings.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Cover-Up Accelerates
The president directed his attorney general to declassify information—raising the prospect of selective disclosures.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Take It From an Iraq War Supporter—War With Iran Would Be a Disaster
It would mean repeating a mistake, only on a much bigger scale: without allies, without justification, and without any plan at all.
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters Trump Is Angry That the FBI Won’t Endorse His Theory of Victimhood
The president has already fired an FBI director and an acting director. Now he’s gunning for the present director, Chris Wray.
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Korean Central News Agency via Reuters Trump Has Just One Trick—And It’s Not Working Anymore
The president has a single negotiating move: Take an aggressive position, and then retreat when the bluff is called.
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Sean Gallup / Getty The Triumph of German Democracy
Seventy years in, the success of a united Germany is a story so big that it can be hard to see except at a distance.
