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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty How the Anti-war Camp Went Intellectually Bankrupt
Critics of U.S. foreign policy from both ends of the ideological spectrum have found common cause in supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Getty; LBJ Library; The Atlantic Being Gay Was the Gravest Sin in Washington
In the 1960s, the capital was an alluring but dangerous place for people with a secret.
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Associated Press Mel Boozer Said What Pete Buttigieg Can’t
Before Buttigieg, Boozer compared the civil-rights struggle to the fight for gay and lesbian rights.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Leave Jews Out of It
Trump erred by bringing Israel into his Twitter attack against the “squad.”
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Kostas Tsironis / Reuters The Struggle for Gay Rights Is Over
For those born into a form of adversity, sometimes the hardest thing to do is admitting that they’ve won.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters Pete Buttigieg Offers America Double Relief
He can deliver us from a scandal-plagued presidency and transform the relationship between gay and straight America.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Quit Harping on U.S. Aid to Israel
American commitments to Asian and European allies require more risk and sacrifice.
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Christian Charisius / Reuters Germany’s Leading Magazine Published Falsehoods About American Life
A reporter with Der Spiegel fabricated information in more than a dozen articles—most of which were meant to reveal America’s brutality.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Is Germany Capable of Protecting Its Jews?
The nation’s recent intake of migrants from places where anti-Semitism is ubiquitous has produced a scary tension—and one that’s not easy to resolve.
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John Rous / AP Joe Alsop and America's Forgotten Code
How one journalist’s predicament illustrates a paradoxical aspect of Washington’s relationship to tolerance
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How GLAAD Won the Culture War and Lost Its Reason to Exist
The gay-rights group's baffling award to Bill Clinton is the latest sign that it has outlived its usefulness.
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South Africa Stands With Qaddafi
Even after most of the world participated in the Libyan intervention or at least accepted it, why does the land of Nelson Mandela still appear to support Brother Leader?
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From Serbia to Cape Cod
In Provincetown, foreign workers are saving the tourism industry
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Why South Africa Opposes Bin Laden's Killing
The political legacy of opposition to apartheid has devolved into hostility toward the West -- and sympathy for anyone else engaged in "anti-imperial struggle"
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Did Donald Rumsfeld Whitewash Massacre in Uzbekistan?
In interviews and in his memoir, the former Secretary of Defense defends the Uzbek government -- and himself -- over a 2005 incident that left hundreds of unarmed protesters dead
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Powell's Cautionary Tale
Why liberal internationalists shouldn't be thrilled about the Powell endorsement
