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A girl stands near the rubble of damaged buildings in al-Rai town in the northern Aleppo countryside. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)
by Richard Cohen | Jan 2, 2017 | Opinion
If Dec. 7, 1941, is the day that Franklin D. Roosevelt said “will live in infamy,” then Dec. 20, 2016, has got to be a close second. No Americans died that day as they did at Pearl Harbor, but the American Century, as Time magazine founder Henry Luce called it, came...
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President Barack Obama walks from Oval Office to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
by Richard Cohen | Oct 6, 2016 | Opinion
The New York Times’ David Sanger had an interesting observation in a recent article on Vladimir Putin’s bizarre foreign policy. Russia, Sanger wrote, is a “declining economy with the gross domestic product of Italy.” So how come it manages to push around the United...
