COLUMN
List of COLUMN articles
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Photo by TIM OCKENDEN / AFP / Getty Images You Wouldn’t Kill Margaret Thatcher if You Knew How Hot She Was
Why Hilary Mantel's controversial short story about an imagined assassination of the former prime minister misunderstands the Iron Lady.
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Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Competence Not Required
Julia Pierson’s ouster is the exception that proves the rule: In Washington it is nearly impossible to get fired.
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Joe Raedle/Getty Images Obamacare May Hold the Key to Saving the U.S. from Ebola
The 43.3 million uninsured Americans are the country’s greatest vulnerability when it comes to stopping the world’s scariest virus.
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DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images Ties That Bind
From Afghanistan to Mali to Iraq, training and equipping other countries' militaries has a terrible track record. Why would we want to make it a permanent part of U.S. strategy?
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Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP The Shape-Shifting Coalition
America's allies in the fight against the Islamic State may seem willing now. But what happens when they want to start bombing Assad?
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JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images The Nation-Building Trap
When it comes to destroying the Islamic State in Syria, boots on the ground should be the least of our worries.
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632721_140930_bo140931bors1.png How to Recruit America’s New Allies in Syria
Michael Bay fans need not apply.
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PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images Hollow Words and an Exponential Horror
Obama called the world to action against Ebola, but most countries are only paying lip service to the coming catastrophe.
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Photo by Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images Survey Says
The Chicago Council's new report might have answers as to what Americans want when it comes to Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. The only problem is, it asked the wrong questions.
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Pascal Guyot / AFP Why Big Data Missed the Early Warning Signs of Ebola
Hint: Ils ne parlent pas le français.
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David McNew/Getty Images Environmentalism Is Dead
How America abandoned its role as leader of the fight to save the planet -- and killed a movement.
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Stringer Is Syria a Pay-to-Play Conflict?
A quick look at whether defense money played a role in Congress authorizing Obama's war in Iraq and Syria.
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Saul Loeb/ AFP But This Threatiness Goes to 11…
The commander in chief lays out his justification for the war in Syria and Iraq.
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Spencer Platt/Getty Images Bad Moon Rising
Behind the scenes at the U.N., a more unsettling story emerges of Syria, Iraq, and fighting the Islamic State.
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Win McNamee/Getty Images Americanasaurus and the March to War in Syria
The 6 fictions we have to stop telling ourselves about Obama, the Islamic State, and what the United States can and can't do to save Iraq and Syria.
