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Lady Liberty’s dimming light
NEW YORK â If a debate, and the sentiments it subsequently evokes, can ever undo a nationâs character, the debate over âthe wall,â the banning of immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations...
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8 tricks for defending Trump
When your boss lives on cortisol and caprice, enduring him can be a siege. But when youâre expected to make sense of him, translate his bellows into sentences and sand down his manic edges without...
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Kosovo ready to step up its Balkan security commitments
PRISTINA â Kosovo marked another milestone in its state-building process this week by moving to establish Kosovo’s own defense forces. A multi-ethnic organization established post-independence under...
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Vladmir Putin’s battle of Berlin
Europeans are waking up to the fact that Russia is trying to do by peaceful means what the Soviet Union once threatened by violent ones: overthrow democratic governments. Utilizing methods both overt...
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Trump’s dictator chic
Trumpâs design aesthetic is fascinatingly out of line with Americaâs past and present. If you doubt it, note that the interiors of the apartments his company actually sells bear no resemblance to...
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The man who wants to unmake the West
It was the day after Britain voted to leave the European Union in June, and the Western world was still absorbing the shock. With no clear plan for what would come next, the globeâs fifth-biggest...
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The populists haven’t won yet
BERLIN â Western democracies took a pounding in 2016. As Europe heads into a packed election year, fears are running high that the anti-establishment, anti-immigrant and anti-globalization...
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Unquiet American
STANFORD, California â âI wish him well,â tweeted Michael McFaul, on the day Jon Huntsman was offered the delicate job of ambassador to Russia from the United States. Itâs the job McFaul held...
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Ukraine’s fight against fake news goes global
KIEV, Ukraine â When âlittle green menâ invaded Crimea in the spring of 2014, Russian media went into overdrive, smearing Ukraineâs Euro-revolution as a âfascist coup dâétat.â A group...
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Trump’s Jekyll and Hyde foreign policy
“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Robert Louis Stevensonâs novel of 1886, tells the story of the seemingly virtuous Dr. Henry Jekyll who drinks a serum that transforms him into Mr....
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For Dutch Moroccans, a campaign of fear
AMSTERDAM â Beyond the ring road that circles central Amsterdam, tall terraced houses give way to boxy gray housing estates. Here, the definition of what it means to be Dutch is challenged. The...
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Europe needs an industrial policy
The European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) appreciates European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s pro-industry message in “No to nationalism, yes to industry” (March 9), but his...
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EU risks complicity in crimes against Rohingya
SITTWE, Burma â Burma is spiralling into violence once again, and as the former military dictatorship engages in another wave of mass atrocities, the European Union has become suddenly shy at the...
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Latvia’s fortress think tank
RIGA, Latvia â For a think tank, StratCom, NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, with its piked gate and guardhouse, looks more like a fortress. During the Soviet era, the...
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Europe, keep an eye on Minsk
When Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko imposed a “social parasite” tax in 2015, he assumed â in normal populist dictatorial fashion â that a $245 fine on those who worked for less than six...
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How to charm a German chancellor
BERLIN â Thereâs nothing Angela Merkel hates more than surprises. The German chancellor tends to spend a lot of time preparing for important events. And this weekâs trip to Washington will be no...
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Russia’s plot against the West
When Angela Merkel meets with Donald Trump on Friday, she wonât just be representing Germany. Sheâll be bringing all the hopes and anxieties of an anxious continentâone whose fears have been...
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In UK election expenses, the real scandal is the system
LONDON â We all know politicians are base creatures only in it for themselves, rotten to the core, crooked by their very nature and as greedy as greedy can be. Except theyâre not, are they?...
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A Brexit lexicon
After months of dithering and unkempt debate, the British government has announced that it will seek to commence formal divorce proceedings later this month, giving effect to the referendum in which a...
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The politics of being Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry insisted he didnât write political songs. He couldnât afford to. âI made records for people who would buy them,” Berry said. “No color, no ethnic, no politicalâI don’t want that,...
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