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One year after an uprising over women’s rights, the government has passed a harsh new hijab law.

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Historian Heather Cox Richardson charts the roots of 21st-century disinformation—and how American democracy began to falter.

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But countering China’s growing regional clout is proving to be an uphill battle.

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