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Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images When the Petrodollars Run Out
Oil and gas prices are falling through the floor. And some countries are woefully unprepared for the drop.
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Photoillustration by FP Uncle Sucker to the Rescue
Washington is making all its favorite mistakes in (another) Iraq war.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES/AFP/Getty Images The Varnish of Vietnam
The United States still hasn't stopped trying to win unwinnable wars.
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Joe Raedle/Getty Images Fair Weather Friends
Seven years on, the United States is still failing the Iraqi and Afghan interpreters it once promised visas. And the rise of the Islamic State makes their plight more urgent than ever.
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images We Have Reached Peak President
Why the time of great American leadership is over.
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Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images How to Squander Home-Field Advantage
Surely, the administration should realize that lecturing friends and browbeating allies doesn't do it many favors.
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Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images ‘The Freedom Fight Has Returned to Turkey’
As Kurds head to the front lines to fight the Islamic State, they face a Turkish government attacking them from the rear.
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Dan Kitwood/Getty Images How Malala Can Help Defeat the Islamic State
Empowering Muslim women is the key to degrading and ultimately destroying medieval and reactionary fanaticism.
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gamearchive.as.ua.edu Yahtzee Meets the Hot Zone
The nightmarish Ebola board game that's starting to look all too real.
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Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images News Much Ado About the Islamic State
Terrible though they may be, even the worst events of late -- from IS to Ebola -- may not make a lasting imprint on the world. Or your investment portfolio.
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Photo by Torsten Blackwood Obama’s Ocean Gambit
Obama just created a Pacific Ocean reserve almost twice the size of Texas to curb fishing and oil drilling. But it might be too little too late.
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Bart Maat How to Destroy the International Criminal Court From Within
Kenya's president is charged with inciting ethnic violence that killed thousands. He's about to talk his way out of it like it's a parking ticket.
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Mark Wilson/Getty Images How to Keep Ebola Out of Your Neighborhood
There’s a way to prevent the virus from spreading, but the answer isn’t travel bans.