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The conflicts and displacements touched off around the world by the attacks have been reverberating for the majority of your life. “This ‘war’ [on terrorism] will never be over,” wrote James Fallows, a few years after the towers fell.
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In July 2013, Kurt Weyland wrote about the authoritarian threat to democracy in Latin America.
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