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AFP/Getty Images Japan Has Enough Plutonium to Make Thousands of Nukes
Tokyo doesn't want the bomb, but it doesn't know what to do with the fuel stockpile.
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Adam Berry/Getty Images 10 Things World Leaders Are Thankful For
Why Angela Merkel is thinking of France, Khamenei is grateful for Lindsey Graham, and why China isn’t disappointed the United States is back in Iraq.
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Photo by Joerg Koch/Getty Images The Doormat Gets Shown the Door
Chuck Hagel wasn't a genius. But he got a bum rap for being exactly the secretary of defense that Obama wanted -- until he wasn't.
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Alex Wong/Staff Budget Blunders and Funding Follies
Hagel's push from the Pentagon was about more than just ISIS and White House politics.
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STR/AFP/Getty Images Indians Don’t Hate Foreigners and Their Money Anymore
But can Prime Minister Modi capitalize on the changing winds and let foreign firms help build his “Make in India” economy?
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Joe Klamar/AFP The Iran Nuke Extension Is a Death Sentence
With an angry GOP Congress ready to levy new sanctions and a new generation of Iranian centrifuges spinning up, we can't wait another four months.
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LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images Can China’s Central Bank Ever Be Independent?
Why Beijing's interest rate cut is a red flag for economists.
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Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Fall Guy
Getting rid of Hagel is not a cure for what ails Obama's national security team -- it's a symptom of the disease.
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RONALD ZAK/AFP/Getty Images 4 Big Reasons the Iranian Nuclear Deal Didn’t Happen
Washington would like to believe it has a lot more leverage over Tehran than it really does.
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SAUL LOEB/AFP Exaggeration Nation
The threat posed by the Islamic State to the United States is being overblown to a dangerous -- and untruthful -- degree. So why are we letting our government officials get away with it?
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Photo by Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images The Catch-22 of Barack Obama
Dealing with Congress could drive anyone nuts, but with his immigration move, Obama is crazy like a fox.
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John Moore/Getty Images Apply the Rigor of Investing to Foreign Aid
There's a reason Americans are confused about the value of overseas development assistance. And there's also a fix -- if the State Department gets serious about the next QDDR.
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Photo by RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images It’s Time to Start Giving a Shit About Toilets
Don't snicker: Open defecation is one of the world's most stubborn problems. And the inability to adopt even Victorian-era sanitation is keeping India from being a superpower.
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Mark Wilson/Getty Images I’m Back From Liberia and Under a (Self-Imposed) Quarantine in Brooklyn
Going from Monrovia to Belgium to New York meant enduring power outages, fever checks, Ebola questionnaires, and the hallway from hell.
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Jewel Samad, AFP Vladimir Putin Hates the TTIP
Which is exactly why Europe and America need to get it done.