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Iraq's Flawed Liberation of Fallujah

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A Humanitarian Intervention in the West Wing

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Let Them Eat Alexander the Great Statues

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Good Riddance to Great Britain

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Ukraine’s History Is in Good Hands

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How Fake Democracies Damage Real Ones

Brian Klaas |

Iraq's Flawed Liberation of Fallujah

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SitRep: Moscow vs. Washington, Syria Edition

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Iran’s Hollow Threats to Close the Strait of Hormuz

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China’s Millennials Think Tiananmen Was So 1989

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汉语不是落后语言

墨磊宁 |

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Michela Wrong

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Donald Trump's Nuclear Envy Problem, and Ours

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To Stay Open, Europe Needs to Close Its Doors

James Traub |
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What Policies Should Decide the Presidential Election?

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Africa’s Hottest Frozen Border Boils Over

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This dog has a horse

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A Rare But Unsurprising Protest

Peter Feaver |

Jo Cox: A Memory

Will Inboden |

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Erdogan?

John Hannah |

Obama's Missed Opportunity

Dov Zakheim |

Taking the Blame Game Too Far

Peter Feaver |

Should America Care Whether Britain Stays in the EU?

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Mustafa Akyol

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How Not to Win Friends and Influence the Turkish People

Turkey's bombastic prime minister has convinced himself that just because he wins elections, he can govern the country all by himself.

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Mustafa Akyol is the author of Islam without Extremes and a columnist for Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East.

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