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How a team of sneaky librarians duped Al Qaeda

Why Asma Al Assad is the perfect dictator’s wife for the twenty-first century

Should the U.S. ban Russians implicated in Sergei Magnitsky's death?

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Margaret Thatcher's fluctuating foreign policy

How Seoul handles Washington and Pyongyang's war games

What will happen to Venezuela now that the caudillo is dead?

As the World Burns in Karachi

The extreme perils of motherhood in Sierra Leone

Advice to the president on his visit

In Kenya, the answer is no one at all

The "homosexual propaganda" ban is traditionalism at its worst

Advice for the new secretary of state about Israeli-Palestinian relations

Syrian rebels brandish their weapons