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Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told reporters on March 8 that he wants to introduce legislation to combat Mexican cartels and gangs. "We are going to unleash the fury and might of the US against these cartels," he said.

Ideas

Republicans would be wise to drop the talk of bombing Mexico

eats of military action against drug cartels come across very differently south of the border. 3:00 a.m.

St. Vincent, Pat Benatar, and 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee Sheryl Crow performed in New York this month. Benatar, center, was inducted last year over the objections of some voters.

Columns

Women rock. Someone tell the Hall of Fame’s voters.

In the nearly 40 years since the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was established, its inductees remain overwhelmingly white and male. 2:43 p.m.

The Phillis Wheatley statue on Commonwealth Avenue.

Ideas

The quietly radical genius of Phillis Wheatley

Twelve years after being taken to Boston on a slave ship, she published an internationally acclaimed collection of poetry. But her story has often been whitewashed. 12:37 p.m.

A statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003.

Columns

Ending Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror was the right call

Based on what was known at the time, the decision to invade Iraq was both justifiable and honorable. 3:00 a.m.

Ukrainian soldiers manned a checkpoint in Donetsk with a donated American .50-caliber machine gun in May. Since the Russian invasion, the Biden administration has approved hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of private arms sales to Ukraine and sped up the approval time for deals that get weapons to the front lines.

Ideas

The incalculable moral cost of proxy wars

Appealing because they can be fought on the cheap. Appalling because they are so very hard to end. 11:31 a.m.

This 19th-century lithograph tells a familiar tale of the California Gold Rush: miners panning for gold and camping in a bucolic setting. The real legacy is not so benign.

Ideas

The toxic myth of the Gold Rush

Gold mining in California is often romanticized as a brief and technologically simple story. But it left a devastating environmental legacy that the state is still trying to clean up. 3:04 p.m.