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CIA Director Mike Pompeo. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press)

The CIA is Entering a Danger Zone

by David Ignatius | Jul 31, 2017 | Opinion

If the ghosts who inhabit the walls of the CIA could talk, they would tell Director Mike Pompeo to be careful. The agency is entering a danger zone where a White House in turmoil wants the CIA to take aggressive action overseas but hasn’t developed the clear strategy...

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They’re Americans too. Photographer: Jill Brady/Portland Press Herald/Getty Images

Middle Eastern Immigrants Make the US Stronger

by Noah Smith | Jul 31, 2017 | Opinion

A little more than one week ago, Stanford University mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani died at the age of 40 after a battle with breast cancer. In that short lifetime, she accomplished more than most of us ever will. Mirzakhani was one of the world’s greatest...

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Kim Jong-Un surrounded by Generals (Reuters)

Swimming in the Big Chaos

by Ghassan Charbel | Jul 31, 2017 | Opinion

When Kim Jong-Un makes an appearance surrounded by his generals, the world should expect an interesting news. Then, he laughs out loud and you know that his country’s missile arsenal has a new and more terrifying addition. In this case, South Korea should be careful...

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Muslim pilgrims pray around the holy Kaaba at the Grand Mosque ahead of the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca September 21, 2015.

New Qatari Crisis… Politicizing Pilgrimage

by Salman Al-dossary | Jul 30, 2017 | Opinion

After its failure in promoting the quadre-boycotting as a blockade and internationalizing the three-month crisis, Qatar played the card of politicizing pilgrimage to remind the world of its isolation. This outdated idea was of no benefit. The Saudi government...

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Qatar Embassy (Reuters)

Qatar, Kuwait’s Relations with Iran

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 30, 2017 | Opinion

The brothers in Kuwait always need to find the truth themselves and they are very sensitive to any Gulf or regional warnings. Their relations with Iran is not the first in regard of this matter. Luckily, Tehran’s damage to Kuwait was soon over when Hezbollah’s cell...

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Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, flanked by fellow Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, second from left. and Elizabeth Warren, far left, introduced the party’s new economic message on Monday in Berryville, Va. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times

The Real Civil War in the Democratic Party

by Lee Drutman | Jul 29, 2017 | Opinion

As Democrats try to unite around their new “Better Deal” agenda, the supposed battle between the “socialist” left and the “corporatist” center seems to have collapsed into a bland but serviceable slogan, with a reasonably progressive economic agenda that both Senators...