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              Elias Groll | 1 day ago
            • Obama’s Staff is Not the Problem

              Paul Bonicelli | 2 days ago
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              Reid Standish | 2 days ago
            • The Activists Assad Hates Most Are Now Obama's Problem

              John Hudson | 2 days ago
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              Asma Ghribi | 2 days ago
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              Thomas E. Ricks | 2 days ago
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              Thomas E. Ricks | 2 days ago
        • The Cable
            • The Activists Assad Hates Most Are Now Obama's Problem

              John Hudson | 2 days ago
            • Holdout Senator Frees Up Military's Ebola Funding

              John Hudson | 2 days ago
            • Pritzker Practices 'Commercial Diplomacy' in Ukraine,…

              Nicole Duran | 3 days ago
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              Colum Lynch | 5 days ago
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              Jamila Trindle | 5 days ago
            • Palestinians Prepare for Showdown With Washington

              Colum Lynch | 1 week ago
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              John Hudson | 2 weeks ago
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              John Hudson | 5 days ago
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              Colum Lynch | 2 weeks ago
        • The Complex
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              Justine Drennan | 3 days ago
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              Kate Brannen | 4 days ago
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              Gopal Ratnam | 5 days ago
            • U.S. Commander Foresees a Yearlong Ebola Effort

              Kate Brannen | 5 days ago
            • Islamic State Kills British Hostage Alan Henning

              Shane Harris | 1 week ago
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              Shane Harris | 1 week ago
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              Yochi Dreazen | 2 weeks ago
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              Justine Drennan | 2 days ago
            • Will Malala's Nobel Prize Backfire?

              Elias Groll | 1 day ago
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              Reid Standish | 2 days ago
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              Alex Horton | 3 months ago
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              Carlos Puig | 3 months ago
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              Reid Standish | 3 months ago
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              José R. Cárdenas | 4 months ago
            • The Year of El Niño

              Matt Bors | 4 months ago
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              Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | 1 hour ago
            • Hong Kong's Sour Deal

              Dalena Wright | 2 days ago
            • 'A New Era for Hong Kong'

              David Wertime | 2 days ago
            • 'Hong Kong, What Does the Motherland Really Owe You?'

              Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | 2 days ago
            • The Umbrella Movement Playlist

              Doug Meigs | 3 days ago
            • Hong Kong's Wild Protest Art

              Alexandra A. Seno | 2 days ago
            • Why We Should Hope Kim Jong Un Returns From His Mysterious…

              Isaac Stone Fish | 4 days ago
            • China Bans Law-Breaking Actors From Movies and Television

              Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | 3 days ago
            • China's Vast, Strange, and Powerful Farming Militia Turns 60

              Alexa Olesen | 4 days ago
        • Europe
            • Ukraine Gas Boss: 'Gazprom Destroyed Its Image as a…

              Keith Johnson | 2 days ago
            • The Peat Monster

              Britt Peterson | 2 days ago
            • Don't Give the Pope the Peace Prize

              Elias Groll | 2 days ago
            • The Curious Case of Moazzam Begg

              Ruth Michaelson | 3 days ago
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              Michael Weiss | 6 days ago
            • Hong Kong Pride

              Peter Rutland | 1 week ago
            • 'I Am Only Looking Up to Paradise'

              Loubna Mrie | 1 week ago
            • Former NATO Head Hasn't Wasted Any Time Cashing In

              Thomas Stackpole | 2 weeks ago
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              Phil Levy | 2 weeks ago
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            • Let's Get the Old Blackwater Team Back Together

              Justine Drennan | 2 days ago
            • What's Stopping Turkey from Saving Kobani?

              David Kenner | 2 days ago
            • The Activists Assad Hates Most Are Now Obama's Problem

              John Hudson | 2 days ago
            • Hey Swaziland: $18 Won’t Buy You a Solution to Your AIDS…

              Siobhán O'Grady | 20 hours ago
            • How to Destroy the International Criminal Court From Within

              David Bosco | 2 days ago
            • Holdout Senator Frees Up Military's Ebola Funding

              John Hudson | 2 days ago
            • Tackling Ebola, One Broadcast at a Time

              Peter Tinti | 3 days ago
            • The Curious Case of Moazzam Begg

              Ruth Michaelson | 3 days ago
            • If ISIS had a 3-24 (IV): The importance of propaganda,…

              Thomas E. Ricks | 3 days ago
        • South Asia
            • Will Malala's Nobel Prize Backfire?

              Elias Groll | 1 day ago
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              David Sterman | 2 days ago
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              Kate Brannen with Nathaniel Sobel | 2 days ago
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              Aarya Nijat | 3 days ago
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              David Sterman | 3 days ago
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              Nishank Motwani | 3 days ago
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              Siobhán O'Grady | 4 days ago
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              David Sterman | 4 days ago
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              Kate Brannen with Nathaniel Sobel | 4 days ago
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              Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez | 4 days ago
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              Prachi Vidwans | 6 days ago
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              Christian Caryl | 6 days ago
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              Peter Rutland | 1 week ago
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              Gregory Michener | 20 hours ago
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              Anna Petherick | 20 hours ago
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              Peter Salisbury | 2 days ago
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              Jamila Trindle | 3 days ago
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              Jamila Trindle | 5 days ago
            • Read the Anti-Hong Kong Rant That's Going Viral in China

              Anonymous, Translated by Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | 5 days ago
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              Gregory Michener | 20 hours ago
            • A Way Out of Crisis

              Kristen Sample | 1 week ago
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              Thomas Stackpole | 2 weeks ago
            • The Case Against Qatar

              Elizabeth Dickinson | 1 week ago
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              Jamila Trindle | 2 weeks ago
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              Keith Johnson | 2 days ago
            • The Peat Monster

              Britt Peterson | 2 days ago
            • Has the U.S. Turned Off the Islamic State's Oil Spigot?

              Keith Johnson | 5 days ago
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              Keith Johnson | 1 week ago
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              Keith Johnson | 2 weeks ago
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              John McCain | 2 weeks ago
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              Keith Johnson | 2 weeks ago
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              Rosa Brooks | 2 weeks ago
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              Whitney Kassel | 1 month ago
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              Elias Groll | 1 day ago
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              Elias Groll | 2 days ago
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              Manal Omar | 4 days ago
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              Maria J. Stephan | 6 days ago
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              Alec Luhn | 2 weeks ago
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              Andrew Blum | 3 weeks ago
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              Kristin Lord | 3 weeks ago
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              Suzanne Nossel | 2 months ago
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              Avigdor Liberman | 2 months ago
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              Paul Brian | 2 months ago
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              David Rothkopf | 2 months ago
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            • Hong Kong's Sour Deal

              Dalena Wright | 2 days ago
            • 'A New Era for Hong Kong'

              David Wertime | 2 days ago
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              Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | 2 days ago
            • Hong Kong's Wild Protest Art

              Alexandra A. Seno | 2 days ago
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              Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | 3 days ago
            • China's Vast, Strange, and Powerful Farming Militia Turns 60

              Alexa Olesen | 4 days ago
            • Read the Anti-Hong Kong Rant That's Going Viral in China

              Anonymous, Translated by Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | 5 days ago
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              George Chen | 6 days ago
            • The Great Divide

              Ran Liu | 6 days ago
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              Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | 1 week ago
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              Thomas E. Ricks | 4 days ago
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              Thomas E. Ricks | 3 weeks ago
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              Thomas E. Ricks | 1 month ago
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              Simon Engler | 1 month ago
            • Playing Nostradamus

              Kalev Leetaru | 1 month ago
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              Shane Harris | 2 months ago
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              Shane Harris | 2 months ago
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              Shane Harris | 2 months ago
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              Shane Harris | 3 months ago
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              Sarah Laskow | 3 months ago
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              Elias Groll | 4 months ago
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              Daniel Altman | 4 months ago
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              Daron Acemoglu | 2 years ago
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              A few too many years under the Deutsche Demokratische Republik can wreak havoc on a moral compass.

              Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
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              How the slave trade patterns of centuries ago are still shaping African marriages today.

              Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
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              The Nigerian-American novelist discusses the pitfalls of hashtag activism, the destructiveness of U.S. foreign policy, and that time he dreamed about meeting Obama at a Brooklyn house party.

              Seyward Darby
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              Undocumented? Unauthorized? Illegal? After 250 years, we're still debating what to call America’s visa-less immigrants.

              Jake Scobey-Thal
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              Haunting portraits of the victims of America’s drone war in Pakistan.

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          A smaller atomic arsenal isn't just wishful thinking -- it's bad strategy.

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