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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Indonesia finally begins to confront its history

Admitting the ugliness in their pasts is no easier for countries than it is for individuals.

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Britain’s Schindler, Nicholas Winton

As the Second World War loomed, a London banker helped evacuate hundreds of Czech children to safety and new homes in England.