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Joshua Roberts / Reuters John McCain’s Parting Gift to His Nation
The senator orchestrated a final ceremony that called his fellow citizens to live up to the greatness of American ideals.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Great-Heart Is Gone
Who will have the fortitude to pick up the torch from John McCain’s grasp?
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Stan Allen An Actually Magical Convention
At the heart of the appeal of magic is wonder—the joyful astonishment of childhood that we tend to forget as adults.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters How This Will End
Sooner or later, tyrants are always abandoned by their followers.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Pulling Security Clearances Is Just the Start
Another norm falls victim to Trump as he turns the power of government against his critics
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Leah Millis / Reuters Meet the Trumpverstehers
We know about the president’s most vocal supporters. But what about his more discreet following?
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Alden Bentley / Reuters The Lesson of the Great War
A century after the guns fell silent, the United States risks replicating the errors of the past.
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Alex Brandon / AP Where ‘America First’ Once Led
A new exhibit reveals America’s isolationist attitudes and policies during the Holocaust—and speaks to where the country still stands today.
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Andrew Harnik / AP A Reckoning for Obama's Foreign-Policy Legacy
Veterans of the last administration are learning a hard lesson: Policies constructed by executive order and executive agreement are just as easily blown up by them.
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AP Photo The Party of Ike
Eisenhower—embodying prudence, diligence, and broad-mindedness—offers conservatives in the age of Trump a different model of leadership.
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Omar Sanadiki / Reuters Neither Precise Nor Proportionate
Trump’s attack on Syria was unserious but intended to relieve emotional pressure—and in many ways, worse than doing nothing at all.
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AP A Modest Plea for Patriotic History
If Americans were more familiar with the complex heroes of their past, they would be better equipped to recognize people of good character today.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters McMaster's Choice
Before he was the national-security adviser, he wrote a lacerating account of generals who failed in advising Lyndon Johnson. What will he say now that he is free to talk about Trump?
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Team of Sycophants
Tillerson’s dismissal leaves the White House more than ever the conniving and dishonest court of an erratic, ill-informed, and willful monarch.
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Michaela Rehle / Reuters Witnessing the Collapse of the Global Elite
Last weekend’s security conference in Munich was a stark reminder that this class has nothing of substance to offer a world in turmoil.
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Ron Frehm / AP The Truth About Military Parades
Military parades say more about those who order and watch them than those who participate in them.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Americans Are Rising to This Historic Moment
The commitment of ordinary citizens to democratic ideals is being tested each day—and its enduring strength is containing the damage of Trump’s presidency.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Not Our Finest Hour
Darkest Hour presents Churchill as a Trump-like populist—and in the process, elides the lessons contemporary audiences might learn from his wartime leadership.
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Kyodo / Reuters Waiting for the Bomb to Drop
There are sounds, for those who can hear them, of the preliminary and muffled drumbeats of war.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Three Ways to Read Trump's National Security Strategy
Is it better approached as a sacred text, or examined like the scat of a shaggy, woodland beast?
