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We’ll just have to wait to learn who’s right — the world’s climate experts or three members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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When the dual investigations determine the circumstances of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes, the time-tested aviation safety system will work to eliminate the cause.

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What really makes a college good is what it does over four years to turn adolescent students into adult graduates.

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If he jumps in the race, Biden will face a cruel irony: All his hard-won experience no longer counts as a virtue; it may be his downfall.

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An important but under-discussed dimension of Brexit is the impact on defense and security cooperation in Europe.

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The fact is, our military readiness has improved by giving every qualified individual the opportunity to serve.

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A question for voters who backed Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016: Would you vote for a Bobby Kennedy-like candidate over Trump in 2020?

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Like the little engine who could, Trump just keeps plugging along.

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Reagan knew that without the people’s trust, he could not govern effectively, but even more than that, he just could not accept the fact that he was telling the truth but some people thought he was lying.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar has a lot of opinions about Israel and the Americans who support it. Where most members of Congress see a longstanding alliance, Omar sees a conspiracy. It's odd.

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I believe Rand Paul when he says he supports vaccination, but I suggest he reconsider his position on mandates.

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This is a prescription for a disaster, and yet the confrontation is flying below the international radar.

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In the intensifying worldwide struggle between the rule of law and corruption, the United States cannot afford neutrality.

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The title “leader of the free world” is up for grabs. Maybe the role itself ought to be retired.

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Making the decision to serve our country in uniform shouldn’t mean compromising your child’s future.

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Even if you think politics has become unmoored in the Age of Trump, most of the presidential candidates’ appeals are actually quite traditional.

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If the U.S. hits full employment, it means that keeping interest rates low might cause inflation. It also means that businesses will have to raise wages in order to poach workers from each other.

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We have seen it again and again. Sexual assault victims struggle for years and even decades before mustering the courage to come forward, only to be met with the same skeptical questions: Where’s the police report? Why didn’t you tell anyone? Martha McSally has delivered the answer.

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It’s probably fair to say that Virginia first lady Pam Northam was trying to demonstrate and encourage empathy for the slaves. But what about for those present?

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VA suicide prevention team members need the best tools possible to fulfill their missions. No one should have to be a hero every single day just to make the system work.

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President Donald Trump has worked successfully to secure the release of many American hostages held abroad. But Americans might be surprised to know that Syria’s Assad regime likely holds more American hostages than any state or nonstate actor, according to officials, activists and the families of these missing Americans.

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The president was clear: He wanted a 355-ship Navy and, specifically, a fleet of 12 aircraft carriers. My reporting is that this “decision” is counter to the advice of the uniformed professionals.

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While our adversaries have weaponized space, too often we have bureaucratized it.

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The party hacks and their hairsprayed con men are symbiotic now, bound not by respect but by fear. If one falls, they all fall — or so the calculation goes.

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In deciding the Peace Cross' constitutionality, the court could overhaul its establishment clause doctrine.

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Some of the theatrics were so transparent and tasteless as to be appalling, and indicative, too, of how gullible some in Washington imagine the rest of us to be.

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Leave aside for now questions of policy, good or bad. Instead, focus on how the broader trends of U.S. history offer guidance as to which proposals have a realistic chance of being enacted.

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Did Kim Jong Un lure Trump to Hanoi only to set demands he knew the U.S. could never agree to, while holding Trump’s hand so he would acquiesce? There’s plenty of evidence that’s exactly what happened.

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It's been 17 months since Hurricanes Maria and Irma tore through Puerto Rico, but the wounds are still fresh. It took nearly a year for full power to be restored. Even now, blue tarp fills in for roofs, as Puerto Ricans await federal funding. They have reason to wonder how much will come.

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In the fantasy re-enactment of my former responsibilities, Gaetz barely skates out of legal trouble, never knowing how close he came to a serious criminal charge.

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Despite popular portrayals to the contrary, most Americans who support building more miles of walls and better securing the border in other ways are not driven by racism, hate or ignorance.

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The president’s support is important for any Cabinet official, but the secretary of defense has a crucial role in reassuring allies, managing the military and deterring adversaries.

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This entire debate isn’t really about military preparedness but is about social engineering — changing the way people perceive things so that they can be arranged according to the designs of a relatively very few.

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“Endless wars” inflict grave harm to the military’s ability to prepare for, and if necessary defeat, potential foes in existential battles.

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The crown prince understood that human rights violators generally find absolution in Beijing.

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There’s still a long way to go before the emerging plan to avoid disaster in Syria becomes a reality.

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There is no record that a religious event has ever been held at the Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Md., in 94 years.

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Buttigieg is not well known enough to even register in the early polling. But at a time when Donald Trump sits in the White House, who’s to say what is improbable anymore?

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Given Roberts’ concurrence in Citizens United, I think he will vote to uphold the Louisiana law he voted to stay, and to overrule WWH, and may join his four “conservative” colleagues in going much further than that, to the overturning of Casey and Roe.

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There are many categories of visas, but sympathy visas and “feel good story” visas are not among them.

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This experience in war zones is precious because it breeds measured, skeptical judgment, as well as patriotism.

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The gene editing “machine” should become as restrictive as possible, integrated into an international law ratified by governments around the world and augmented by international treaties.

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If you think the deal was uniquely outrageous, you need to look more closely at how governments actually operate.

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It’s becoming a vicious cycle: The Trump administration pushes. The Europeans resist. The effect is to make it harder for old allies to cooperate in areas where they mostly agree.

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Most of the efforts out of Washington to fight rising drug prices amount to all-talk-no-action. But there’s one government campaign that has worked — and that the government just expanded.

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It is a hard, bitter lesson for most senators and governors and celebrity candidates to learn that history is full of accidents and coincidence and happenstance and contains very few masters of fate.

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Today, we have sunk to a level of tribalism that would seem to predate the modern era.

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Today’s headlines carry strong echoes of the past, suggesting a historical pattern that must also be confronted if the Vatican is serious about restoring trust, increasing accountability and eliminating the stain of sexual abuse.

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He has openly wedded Israel’s government to the Republican Party and helped to divide U.S. opinion on Israel along partisan lines.

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Stephen Biegun said it’s time to move the talks from noisy televised summits to quiet meetings between lower-level diplomats.

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One possibility, according to U.S. and foreign officials, would be to have paramilitary officers from the CIA take over the training and advising of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.

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Unrest in the Middle East didn’t start with elections. The region remains tumultuous in great part because the legitimacy of dictatorship has collapsed.

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Amazon announcing it will not put one of its new North America headquarters in New York City is the latest in a bad run of events that raise the possibility that progressives have overplayed their hand.

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Vaccination isn’t just about individual benefits. A belief in the common good requires individuals, at times, to take on risk for the benefit of the community as a whole.

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It is increasingly clear that in view of their complex role in society and their massive power, social media platforms can jeopardize both democratic and economic goals.

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When the Trump team began its North Korea diplomacy, it assured the American public it would not repeat past mistakes.

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I would think that Putin would prefer to be called names than to have the United States follow this firm and consistent strategic path.

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It’s a heavy lift to convince people they are worse off when more of them are working, earning higher wages and taking home more of what they earn because of tax cuts.

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To leverage and augment such incredible resources, on-site teachers must become life coaches, role models, facilitators, therapists, motivators, demolishers of obstacles and openers of eyes.

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To be sure, each of these topics contains elements of legitimate news. But the extent to which they have dominated our headlines, news feeds and broadcasts is disproportionate to their true import.

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We should buy time through negotiations to develop and deploy our own countermeasures in Europe while offering Moscow a treaty that meets our shared security needs: countering the growing missile threat from China.

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I have found that when people perceive their self-interest and sense of morality to be in harmony, they are very likely to act in accordance with them.

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Once the meal is consumed, they will ask: Was that sufficiently authentic? If you failed in this task, you are plainly unable to connect with the “real” Americans whose favor will determine your fate.

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Moral harms need no substantive damages to be wrong, and they apply to the world of onlookers as much as to the thieves of private materials.

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If Trump can promise a 2,000-mile wall covered with solar panels that Mexico will pay for, then they’ll promise to eliminate fossil fuels in 10 years while ending poverty and putting a nice kale salad on every plate.

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No one can say this time, “I’m fine with a woman being president, there’s just something not right about this woman being president.”

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Those who now favor large-scale change should avoid a term, and a set of practices, that have so often endangered both liberty and prosperity.

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Denying that China’s actions pose a grave threat and placing the blame on ourselves will only fan the flames of protectionism and cause even greater harm.

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What would Assad have to do to justify a comparison to the Holocaust? Attempted ethnic cleansing on a massive scale? Check. Mass torture and murder of civilians in custody? Check. Crematoriums? Check. Gassing children? Check.

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U.S. officials believe that the disruption effort has frazzled some of the Russian targets and may have deterred some interference during the midterms.

Jeff Bezos, the digital retail titan and media baron, took to the internet on Thursday evening to defend himself. In a remarkable post on Medium.com, he accused the National Enquirer — the flamethrower-cum-garbage-bin owned by American Media Inc. and overseen by its publisher, David Pecker — of blackmail and extortion.

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Neeson’s comments can be read as a bit of honesty to talk about the things we seldom talk about. But to “scratch the surface,” as he said, is one thing in film but quite another in real life.

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“The No First Use Act” would hobble U.S. national interests and make the world a more dangerous place.

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Trump is in a better position now than Nixon was then, which is certainly an example of damning with faint praise.

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The real meaning of the claim that "we have liberated virtually all of that territory" is that Middle Eastern terrorism is no longer a casus belli for the United States.

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At a time the nation’s non-white voting population continues growing, the Democrats see both a moral and a practical aspect to maintaining their fervent pro-civil rights positions and condemning deviations.

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What needs protection in Afghanistan are its people and the opportunities even a weak state makes possible for them.

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Army Futures Command is poised to be a key player in linking technologies and contractors that could shave months or years off the delivery schedule for some systems.

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Here’s an unsentimental explanation for the president’s once-a-year excursions into rhetorical conciliation and bipartisanship. It’s not the majesty of the moment. It’s smart political strategy.

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Democrats have voiced support and cast votes for border security in the form of physical barriers in the past, but they won't do so now because of their hatred of the president of the United States.

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Although health-care experts initially piled on with criticism, it seems health care plans developed by the Trump administration could work exactly as promised: By helping offer coverage options for middle-income families who are making too much to qualify for federal ACA subsidies but are still struggling to afford premiums.

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If a legitimate Republican candidate enters the race, the RNC may be tempted to double down on its Trump support, but given the significant portion of Republican voters interested in seeing him challenged, the RNC should go to a neutral corner and let the primary candidates fight it out.

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For political spectators the real race to watch from time to time will not be the chattering pack of Democrats over-promising goodies for each of their segregated segments.

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While Trump’s time in office is limited, this bunch is just getting started.

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Our patriotic determination to Make America Great Again received a great boost in recent days — perhaps the greatest we’ve gotten in years.

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Imagine how difficult it would be to reach an agreement on the right way to close large fiscal gaps when funding for every government function is on the table.

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Poorly informed leftists are peddling the notion that the political crisis in Venezuela is the product of yet another heavy-handed U.S. “intervention” in Latin America.