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Middle East Aflame
The U.S. and Turkey: Past the Point of No Return?

With Ankara and Washington on a collision course in northern Syria, both sides will have to rethink their priorities if they want to salvage an increasingly hollow alliance.

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Trade War Coming
The Trump Deception

The President finally made good on his trade threats, imposing punitive duties on Chinese and South Korean exports. American consumers and workers will foot the bill.

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Triangulation
Trump’s State of the Union Coup

America’s reality-TV President just hit the celebrity political jackpot.

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Pressuring Putin
How to Make Russia Sanctions Bite

The release of an “oligarch report” this week should be just the beginning.

Garbage In Garbage Out
The Oligarch List That Wasn’t

The Trump Administration has undermined the deterrent effects of a law meant to prevent Russian meddling in future elections.

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A View from Germany
The Dresden Diaries

Populist impressions from the heart of old-new Europe.

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Religious Freedom
Persecution in the Land of the Pure

After years of neglect, the State Department is finally responding to Pakistan’s dismal record on religious freedom. The time is ripe for more serious action.

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All That Jazz
Goodman’s Greatest Gig at 80

The 1938 Carnegie Hall concert that changed the jazz world forever.

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Photo Essay
Smashing Into a New World: Iconoclasm Through the Ages

From ancient Egypt to the present, elites have always erected monuments to signal what their inferiors should venerate—and new regimes have always ordered the demolition of the old.

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PR vs. Reality
The Apple Tax Giveaway

One of the biggest beneficiaries of the Trump tax cuts is in Cupertino.

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