The question isn’t so much whether candidates will admit what a disaster Iraq was, but what they’ve learned from the experience.
America and the World
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Should We Relitigate the Iraq War in the 2016 Campaign? You Bet We Should
View image | gettyimages.com If all goes well, in the 2016 campaign we’ll be rehashing the arguments we had about the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003. You may be thinking, “Jeez, do we really have to go through that again?” But we do-in fact, we must. If we’re going to make sense of where […]
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A Radical Pope
Francis has challenged the Catholic Church. How much can he change it?
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Netanyahu’s New Government: Weak, Extreme, and Unpredictable
To stay in power, Israel’s prime minister created a government even further right than he is.
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Photo of the Day, Ordinary Bloke Edition
View image | gettyimages.com That’s British prime minister David Cameron, helping out with some bricklaying ahead of tomorrow’s election, like a regular chap would do. Man of the people and all that, wot wot.
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Photo of the Day, Across the Pond Edition
View image | gettyimages.com I thought of posting a photo of Mike Huckabee announcing his presidential candidacy, but this one is just so much more fun. Britons go to the polls this week, and that’s George Osborne of the Conservative Party, who is currently Chancellor of the Exchequer, visiting with some hard-working constituents to tell […]
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The West’s Regard for Charlie Hedbo Victims Not Extended to African Targets of Extremist Violence
Massacres in Nigeria and Garissa, Kenya, did not draw nearly as much worldwide attention or grief as Charlie Hebdo. What does that say about how we value African lives?
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16 Million Refugees Are Not Some Other Country’s Problem
A Marshall Plan now is cheaper than military action to deal with collapsing states later.
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A Test for Hillary Clinton: Obama’s Trade Deals
Opposition to granting the president fast-track authority is growing among Democrats. The former secretary of state could seize the moment.
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Two Years After the Rana Plaza Disaster, Are Reforms Real?
A series of garment factory fires in Bangladesh spurred reforms in the industry. But will they bring meaningful change?
