Vaulting Ambition

So long as the Syrian Civil War persisted in full force, the contradictions between Russia's alliances could be blurred and elided. Only now, as the war sputters to its end, must that fleeting empire confront the eventualities its was…
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To Kill a Caliph

The Islamic State is still receding, militarily and territorially, from its position in years past. But it behooves us to disentangle the broader structural weakening of the organization from the targeted killing of its eminently…
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Editor’s Pick – Words Matter

Every month our Editor-in-Chief selects one article from this publishing cycle to be featured in podcast format. This month we are featuring an op-ed written by Staff Writer Sarah Farb. Her article, Words Matter, was written in response to…
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Op-Ed: Words Matter

When good people shrug off the kind of repugnance we see from the American president—when we dismiss it as the usual unusualness—we obscure the evil that those words actually unleash.
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