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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Says Climate Change Is a Security Risk. Why Are Republicans Laughing?
From the melting Arctic to the Syrian drought, the president says climate change poses a bigger threat than the Islamic State. Too bad the GOP doesn’t want to do much to fight it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Uruguay’s Half-Baked Marijuana Experiment
The small South American nation is the world's first country to legalize marijuana. But just because the drug is legal to buy doesn't mean you can buy it legally.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Capture of a Paris Ringleader Could Lead to Intelligence Bonanza
Authorities will press Salah Abdeslam for information on imminent threats to Europe -- and information about the Islamic State plots attacks far from its Syrian headquarters.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘They Are Proud of What They Are Doing’
South Sudan's warring leaders have unleashed a terrifying wave of sexual violence that nobody has been able to stop.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rights Groups: U.S. Is Whitewashing the Kunduz Massacre
American troops were responsible for one of the worst tragedies of the Afghan war. The Pentagon has chosen to give them only a slap on the wrist.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is the Islamic State Committing Genocide? The State Dept. Hasn’t Decided.
The Obama administration will miss a March deadline for declaring whether ISIS violence against Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities counts as genocide.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Washington Made It Easy for Iran to Fire Its Ballistic Missiles
A last-minute concession on Iran’s ballistic missile program comes back to haunt American policymakers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turns Out Economic Growth Doesn’t Mean Destroying the Planet
World economies are expanding while keeping greenhouse-gas emissions in check. That’s good news for the environment — and bad news for climate change naysayers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Midwestern Governor Is the GOP’s Last Chance to Challenge Trump’s Nativism
Trump’s saber rattling on foreign policy belies a more anti-interventionist posture out of touch with the Republican Party establishment. They better get used to it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Afghan Dilemma: To Bomb or Not to Bomb
As Kabul’s fragile army struggles to hold the line, will Washington’s warplanes come to the rescue?