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Why Negotiations With the Taliban Aren’t Hopeless

Why Pakistan and the United States Are on a Collision Course

How Congress’s Showdown With China Puts Obama in a Serious Bind

Are Bureaucrats Blowing Off Obama’s New Immigration Policy?

The Return of Putin: A Novel Argument for How the U.S. Should Respond

What Obama and American Liberals Don’t Understand About the Arab Spring

Marcus To The Rescue

Capital Tracks

F for Effort

Why the U.S. Should Support Palestinian Statehood at the U.N.

The Outsider

Why Death Penalty Opponents Are Closer to Their Goal Than They Realize

How Libya’s Energy Economy Can Avoid Iraq’s Mistakes

Obama Is Finally Doing the Right Thing on Israel—For Now, At Least

Netanyahu at the U.N.: A Speech Worth Reading

How Abbas’s U.N. Gambit Empowered Hamas

Parsing U.S. Poverty at the Metropolitan Level

Élisabeth Gille’s Devastating Account of her Mother, Irène Némirovsky