Argument
An expert’s point of view on a current event.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Anwar al-Awlaki’s Life After Death
The persistent popularity of the American imam killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen is a lesson in the difficulty of stamping out radicalism.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hiroshima, My Father, and the Lie of U.S. Innocence
Why Washington hid Japan’s crimes, and its own, in the reckoning of justice after World War II.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Meet Rodrigo Duterte: The Filipino Trump, Turned Up to 11
The next president of the Philippines is a tough-talking, foul-mouthed, pope-bashing lightweight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Boaty McBoatface of British Politics
The Brexit fight is proving too big a stage for Boris Johnson’s brand of political performance art.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mozambique’s Invisible Civil War
The government says everything’s fine. But that’s not what we heard from its victims.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Kim Jong Un Needs Nuclear Weapons
At North Korea’s first party congress in 36 years, the country’s leader is showing why he’s the man to defend his people.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Croatia’s Far Right Weaponizes the Past
The new government includes an outspoken apologist for the country's World War II-era fascist regime.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 When Europe Loved Islam
Before the continent started banning hijab, European aristocrats used to change their names to Abdullah and Muhammad, and going to the local mosque was the latest trend.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Al Qaeda Is About to Establish an Emirate in Northern Syria
After years on the back foot, the Nusra Front is laying the groundwork for al Qaeda’s first sovereign state.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 America Will Regret Abandoning the Middle East
For decades, Washington had an understanding that the Arab world mattered. This presidential campaign has killed it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cruz or Trump: Who Is the Real Lucifer?
I reread ‘Paradise Lost,’ reviewed the Old Testament, and consulted fallen angels. Only one candidate wants to turn the Rio Grande into an impassable river of fire.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Joe Biden Didn’t Lose Iraq
The veep may have poor timing, but when it comes to Iraq, he's the only one in the Obama administration trying to save it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How I Became Another Victim of Erdogan’s Press Crackdown
I used to think I couldn’t be affected by Turkey’s shrinking press freedom. I just discovered how wrong I was.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Intolerable Cruelty of Australia’s Refugee Deterrence Strategy
Canberra’s decision to offshore asylum seekers in inhumane facilities in Papua New Guinea and Nauru isn’t an accident. It’s exactly the intention.
