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List of Voice articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Choose Your Own Adventure: The Future of the World
It’s not just the U.S. presidential platforms that will shape global politics in the years ahead -- it’s Americans’ theories of how the world works.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Post-Obama Syrian Playbook
The current president is right that America can’t win the war against Bashar al-Assad. Here’s how his successor can avoid defeat.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Checking the Math on the Pentagon’s ISIS Body Counts
The Obama administration steadily updates the tally of dead combatants in its latest war — but can the numbers be trusted?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Defense of Obama’s Middle East ‘Balancing Act’
From the Iraq drawdown to chemical weapons red lines to Russia’s war in Syria, a conversation with Robert Malley, the president’s top Middle East policy official.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Democratic Party’s Silence on Syria
The Syrian conflict barely received a mention at the Democratic convention. That’s because the party is at war with itself over what to do about the crisis.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How the Pentagon Became Walmart
Our armed services have become the one-stop shop for America’s policymakers. But asking warriors to do everything poses great dangers for our country — and the military.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Donald Trump: Keep Your Hands Off the Foreign-Policy Ideas I Believe In
The GOP candidate is talking up three important and sensible ideas about America’s role in the world. And he’s going to ruin them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Our Nuclear Procedures Are Crazier Than Trump
U.S. presidents are currently given a four-minute window to decide whether or not to initiate an irreversible apocalypse. Sad!
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Should Cancel Trump’s Intelligence Briefings
If the Republican candidate is unfit for office, he’s unfit to receive classified information — unless he signs a nondisclosure agreement.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dear Washington: The Time to Prepare for Zika Has Come and Gone
Act now, or bear the blame for the virus's devastating effects.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 France’s War Against the Islamic State Is Not in Syria
François Hollande has taken France to war against Islamist enemies abroad. He should use those resources closer to home.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Donald Trump Is the Peace Candidate
He alone can end 70 years of dangerous tensions with Russia — by extending a hand of friendship to our longtime adversary.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Put a Fork in the Tradition of GOP Foreign Policy Competence
In this race, Clinton is the national security candidate and Trump is putting America at risk.
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First Lady of the United States, Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea visit U.S. troops at Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25th March 1996. (Photo by ) Hillary the Hawk: A History
From Haiti to Syria, the Democratic candidate’s long record suggests she’s looking forward to being a war president on day one.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Democrats Bomb Their Nuclear Test
President Hillary Clinton might want to reduce the country's nuclear stockpile. But her own party might try to stop her — with a useless investigation that would take years.