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Dealing with ISIS
What Price? What Stakes?

Sound policy requires more than just tactical evaluations.

The War on Spam
Blocking the Robocallers

How to stop “Bridget with card holder services” from ruining your day.

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Paris Is Well Worth A Mess
Greens Prep for Talks as Dips Plan a Fudge

The Paris climate treaty appears to be shaping up to be a diplomatic farce. Time for Greens to move on from the counterproductive UN treaty system.

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The Iran Deal and the UN
Obama Lights Firestorm on Capitol Hill

President Obama seems determined to do an end-run around Congress by taking the Iran deal to the UN first. This is undoubtedly the wrong way to proceed.

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Foreign Policy Adrift
Realism and the American Republic

How Washington fails to reconcile realism and idealism in its current foreign policy.

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Armed and Dangerous
Seeing Putin for the Threat He Really Is

Many in the military correctly identify Vladimir Putin’s Russia as the number one threat to the United States. Why doesn’t the Obama Administration agree?

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The Iran Deal
The Real Debate

The Iran deal is seriously compromised in several places, and deserves a “no” vote. But anyone who believes the deal deserves the thumbs down in Congress is obligated to specify an alternative policy.

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Russia-China
Bad Romance

The Russia-China partnership poses more problems for Moscow than it does for the West.

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Anniversaries
500 Years of Protestantism

There can be little doubt about Luther’s stature as an agent of historic change, whether intentional of not. To say this is not necessarily an act of homage.

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Middle East Mess
The Real Deal

Torrents of commentary are coming our way on the Iran deal. Take care of whom you trust.

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