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Our Kurdish allies are being slaughtered. The worst may be yet to come

The costs of pulling out of Syria are manifest, both in bloody, tragic technicolor and in the halls of foreign ministries everywhere. And Turkey continues to push toward Kobani, breaking a pledge not to attack the city.
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Members of the Trump administration who are testifying before the impeachment inquiry have set an example other officials — and members of Congress — would do well to follow.

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A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press. Journalists are not classified as fellow Americans, but rather “the enemy of the people.”

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