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There are actually 2 distinct conflicts in Israel. It's important to distinguish them.
On the eve of the current violence in Israel/Palestine, something extraordinary was about to happen. For the first time, a new Israeli government
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The threat of civil war didn't end with the Trump presidency
Donald Trump's presidency was a product of the country's political polarization, but Trump himself pushed that polarization much further than it was
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The wisdom of pessimism in the Israel-Palestinian conflict
There are plenty of conflicts in the world that feel stuck, immobile, trapped in amber. Think of the Korean peninsula. Or Taiwan. Or Kashmir. But
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The Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis deserves relentless investigating
If three million people died from an industrial accident, what do you think the popular and press reactions would be? I ask the question that way
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The doom-loop of a falling fertility rate
Growth is good. On that, most of us agree. Sure, there are some agrarian localists on the right and antimodern environmentalists on the left who
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The collapse of the GOP? It's just wishful thinking
We've been hearing about it for years from NeverTrump Republican officeholders and likeminded pundits — and it's reaching a crescendo once again
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The Taiwan war paradox
The ominous drumbeat around Taiwan grows louder with every passing month. China clearly covets Taiwan, having long made reunification the
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America's new free-lunch politics
Policies come and go, and so do arguments for and against them. From the mid-19th century on down through the Cold War and beyond, conservatives in
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Biden's self-imposed ceiling
Joe Biden is doing fine. But he should be aiming for better. Just past the 100-day mark, Biden's approval sits at 54 percent. That's quite a bit
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara illuminates what meritocracy does to the soul
Toward the end of the splendid speech he delivered upon receiving the 2017 Nobel Prize in literature, novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (best known for his
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There's no such thing as intellectual property
As the United States enters what is hopefully the final phase of the pandemic, the global outlook is darkening rapidly. Brazil has been suffering
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Biden's big if
Joe Biden will deliver his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening and will pass the 100-day mark of his presidency two
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The right's reactionary temptation
Why might a conservative become a reactionary? That question has been much on my mind in recent years, as the ranks of conservative intellectuals
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Racial justice has a Goldilocks problem
Early polls may find solid and broad-based approval of the guilty verdicts in the trial of Derek Chauvin. But views of what the outcome should mean
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How to vaccinate the anti-vaxxers
It's hard to believe that only three months ago Americans were furious about the slow and inefficient rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. In three