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Nancy Wiechec / Reuters The Call to Do Better
An imperfect leader, John McCain reveled in the struggle, and stood beside those who tried to improve the world.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters There’s No Defending Trump Anymore
The spectacle in Helsinki is over. Now it’s time for Congress—and the American people—to act.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s North Korea Gamble Is a Real-Time Experiment
Here’s how the president’s bets look when viewed through the lens of behavioral economics.
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Handout / Reuters Trump's Syria Strategy Actually Makes Sense
And it does not involve a commitment to change the horrible and predictable outcome of the civil war.
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Jose Cabezas / Reuters Immigrants Give America a Foreign-Policy Advantage
History proves they can help the U.S. keep other countries in check.
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Reuters Give Trump Credit for the North Korea Opening
In this one area at least, the administration’s policy has been focused and effective.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Rex Tillerson's Syria Policy Is Sensible—But It's Fanciful
The resources the administration is willing to commit are at yawning variance with its ambitious goals.
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Amr Dalsh / Reuters Religious Bias Is Distorting American Foreign Policy
The administration is imperiling the very minority communities it claims to want to protect.
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Saad Shalash / Reuters The North Korea Debate Sounds Eerily Familiar
Trump’s national-security officials are making many of the same arguments Bush’s did in 2003.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Could Never Trump Republicans Have Helped More?
The limits of “moderating influence” on the president of the United States
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Keep the Iran Deal
The United States retains the means, and the international support, to move against Iran in other areas.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters If Trump Wants War, He Owes Americans an Explanation
Undercutting Rex Tillerson’s diplomatic efforts with North Korea is an invitation to catastrophe.
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Kyodo via Reuters What Total Destruction of North Korea Means
As Trump considers military options, he’s drawing unenforceable red lines.
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Khalid Mohammed / AP Mosul Holds Clues About a Post-ISIS Future
Those who believe the people of the Middle East unsuited to democracy may think their bias has been borne out by events. That is not what I saw in Iraq.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Give Trump Credit for His Afghanistan Plan
By avoiding timetables and holding Pakistan accountable, he seeks to reverse the mistakes of the past.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters When Words Risk Provoking War
Even if threatening North Korea with “fire and fury” wasn’t intended as an ultimatum, its consequences could be serious.
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Win McNamee / Reuters The Summer of Misreading Thucydides
There’s a delicious irony in the Trump team’s affection for the historian—who repeatedly shows how populists lead societies to ruin.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters America's Military: Overcommitted and Underfunded
The administration wants to expand the armed forces’ commitments, even while contracting spending.
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Nicholas Kamm / Getty Trump Is Destroying His Own Administration's Policies
The Cabinet and National Security Council are developing sensible strategies. But they don’t survive contact with the president.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters How to Manage a Rising Power—or Two
What America can learn from 19th-century Britain
