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We might as well get the bad news out of the way first: we are barreling down a potholed highway at twice the speed limit in a rusty old bus without any brakes. In place of a windshield, we’re relying, for navigational purposes, on a high-resolution screen that’s showing us something with more resemblance to …
A fortnight ago the world got the news that General Qassem Soleimani had just been killed in Baghdad. The head of the Quds Force, often described as the second most powerful person in Iran, Soleimani had been, for a decade or so, a favorite target of Republican foreign policy wonks during their ritual Two Minutes …
This newspaper, already into its 33rd year the day the Constitution went into effect, has had an unparalleled opportunity to observe the rise and development, the triumphs and travails, of that unique experiment in self-governance: the allegedly United States of America. No other story, during our apparently interminable existence, could hold a candle to it—and …