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What Renée Good’s killing says about U.S. citizenship

Though it took nearly two centuries, citizenship in the United States has been a settled question. President Donald Trump’s second administration...

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Theodore R. Johnson

There is no U.S. downside to striking the Iranian regime

In 2012, President Barack Obama drew a red line with Syria, warning dictator Bashar al-Assad that if he used chemical weapons against his people,...

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Marc A. Thiessen

Taking on Uganda’s Big Man can feel like a war

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Keith B. Richburg

How to make the midterms slightly less disgusting

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George F. Will

Mamdani is showing Democrats the way beyond wokeness

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Shadi Hamid

I’ve waited for this electrifying moment in Iran for 10 years

For the first time since leaving Iran in 2016, I’m allowing myself to feel hope that I might one day return. Ten years ago this week, I was taken...

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Jason Rezaian

Why fight Denmark? It’s practically MAGA-land!

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Jim Geraghty

The Virginia GOP’s last-ditch effort to punish ‘dreamers’

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Editorial Board

Don’t follow Trump’s example on aspirin

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Leana S. Wen

Trump was an imperialist all along

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Max Boot

Trump wisely takes a go-slow approach to Venezuelan democracy

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Jason Willick

Why people see what they want in protests and police shootings

“Who, whom?” It’s a famous formulation, originally attributed to Vladimir Lenin. It is a formula that abjures any principle in favor of raw power:...

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Megan Mcardle

The Iranian regime is caught in a death spiral

Let’s imagine the meeting Friday of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council as its dozen members pondered the uprising spreading across the...

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David Ignatius