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List of Voice articles
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Handwritten notes are stuck on a boat used by migrants on Los Caños de Meca beach near Barbate, Spain, on Nov. 26, 2018. Europe’s Future Will Be Decided in North Africa
The United States should stop treating the region as secondary to the rest of the Middle East.
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Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros receives the Schumpeter Award 2019 in Vienna, Austria on June 21, 2019. Billionaires Can’t Buy World Peace
A new think tank funded by George Soros and Charles Koch wants to end American interventionism, but shows no understanding of what motivates it.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech before the newly-unveiled sign for the new settlement of "Ramat Trump," or "Trump Heights" in English, named after the incumbent U.S. president during an official ceremony in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on June 16. The Middle East Is Now Split Between Red States and Blue States
The region has been carved up into Republican and Democratic countries, to the detriment of the United States.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters about Iran and Mexico after signing an executive order establishing a White House Council on eliminating regulatory barriers to affordable housing, in the Oval Office at the White House on June 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump’s Ego Is Officially a Foreign Policy Crisis
Throughout American history, a lack of presidential empathy has triggered international calamity.
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President Donald Trump jokes about a letter given to him by a sheriff after meeting with sheriffs from across the country in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House Feb. 11 in Washington, D.C. Dear President Trump, Let’s Talk About Iran
An open letter to the U.S. president on how to deal with the Islamic Republic—and his own administration.
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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren attend a news conference in Washington on July 24, 2018. A Foreign-Policy Cheat Sheet for the Democratic Debates
We know what the candidates want to talk about. Here's what journalists should be asking.
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A man hangs a poster of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi as people attend symbolic funeral cerenomy on June 18,2019 at Fatih mosque in Istanbul. Egypt Doesn’t Matter Anymore
The death of Mohamed Morsi is the latest milestone along the country’s slide into terminal irrelevance.
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New York Times columnist David Brooks speaking at the Book Expo America in New York. When Zombie Neoconservatives Attack
Why most Americans are right about foreign policy, and David Brooks is wrong.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to the crowd during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Nobody’s Asking for Trump to Be a Genius
But is it too much for him to at least show some foreign-policy common sense?
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People hold signs that read “Abolish I.C.E.” in front of the Trump International Hotel in New York on Feb. 15. Trump Is Trying to Trap Democrats on Immigration
Here’s how they can get out of it.
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Supporters wave U.S. flags as they attend the Rally for America event at Marshall University stadium May 24, 2003 in Huntington, West Virginia. You Can’t Defeat Nationalism, So Stop Trying
There are deep reasons that imagined communities will always be a powerful reality in international politics.
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Israelis celebrate Jerusalem Day in Jeruslam's Old City on May 13, 2018. Israel Is at Peace (With Itself)
The country can’t form a government, its peace process is permanently stalled—and things have never been better.
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A man on a rooftop looks at approaching flames on May 3, 2013, near Camarillo, California. Be Afraid of the World, Be Very Afraid
Five global problems that are getting worse—and may never get better.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan emerges from the voting booth before casting his vote in the countries parliamentary and presidential election on June 24, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkish Democracy Can’t Die, Because It Never Lived
The country’s political system doesn't deserve the laments it’s recently received.
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Richard Holbrooke at the Joint Summit on Business and AIDS in China on March 18, 2005 in Beijing, China. Once Upon a Time, Americans Believed in America
A new biography of Richard Holbrooke is a portrait of an era when the United States was at the center of the world—and assumed it should be.
