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Pilar Revilla, 75, gets emotional after hugging a Catalan Mossos d’Esquadra officer after visiting an impromptu memorial where a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain, August 20, 2017.


Terror in Spain Shows ISIS Is Down not Out

Terror in Spain Shows ISIS Is Down not Out

Spaniards have long lamented that Las Ramblas, the winding main artery of Barcelona, has devolved over the years from the tree-lined strolling place of Catalan flaneurs into a tourist trap filled by kitsch vendors and a cheesy sex museum. Now it will be associated...
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Ban open flames. Photographer: Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images


Universities Can Do More to Curb Hateful Speech

Universities Can Do More to Curb Hateful Speech

The University of Virginia was apparently caught off guard Friday when hundreds of white supremacists marched through the iconic campus carrying lit torches. But with more alt-right protests planned this coming weekend, and white nationalist Richard Spencer seeking to...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik / Kremlin Pool/European Pressphoto Agency)


Russia’s Election Meddling Backfired

Russia’s Election Meddling Backfired

Intelligence officers sometimes talk about “blowback,” when covert actions go bad and end up damaging the country that initiated them. A year later, that is surely the case with Russia’s secret attempt to meddle in the US presidential election, which has brought a...
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A fast food restaurant advertises for workers on its front window in Encinitas, California. REUTERS/Mike Blake


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From left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) during a meeting with House and Senate leadership at the White House in Washington on March 1. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)


Trump and the GOP Need a Restart

Trump and the GOP Need a Restart

British politicians are familiar with the term “reshuffle,” when senior figures in the government switch portfolios or get tossed out or brought into the government. And they’re also very familiar with “coalition governments,” when ruling governments divide jobs and...
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People gather around an impromptu memorial two days after a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain August 19, 2017 (Reuters)


Why do We Attack the World?

Why do We Attack the World?

Whenever an explosion shakes a city, the same scene is repeated. I see eyes fastened to the breaking news on the screens. I hear the whispers of my colleagues: let’s hope the perpetrator is not an Arab; let’s hope he’s not a Muslim; we don’t need more… I hear them and...