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Trump Evangelizes for American Exceptionalism

by Eli Lake | Sep 29, 2017 | Opinion

If you want to get a sense of the enduring power of American exceptionalism, watch President Donald Trump’s address Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly. Here we got a clear message from the candidate whose foreign policy platform was “America...

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A trader works inside a booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Sept. 15, 2015. Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

The Best Era for Working Women Was 20 Years Ago

by Bryce Covert | Sep 5, 2017 | Business, Opinion

The working woman was everywhere in 1980s and 1990s pop culture: The tough single gal Murphy Brown ran the news on TV every week. Dolly Parton in “9 to 5,” Melanie Griffith in “Working Girl,” and the ominously coldhearted mother in “Mrs. Doubtfire.” We didn’t know it...

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“America,” a fully functional solid gold toilet by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, is seen at The Guggenheim Museum in New York City. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Two Weeks Left to Flush for Guggenheim’s Gold Toilet

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 1, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

New York- Art lovers have two more weeks to sit and ponder the meaning of “America,” the name given to a 18-carat gold toilet that has been on display at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for nearly a year. During that time more than 100,000...

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US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy isn’t to Win. It’s to Avoid Losing.

by David Ignatius | Aug 25, 2017 | Opinion

Will President Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy alter the dynamics of America’s longest and most frustrating war? Do commanders really have any better chance of succeeding now than when this conflict began 16 years ago? I put those questions by phone Tuesday to Gen....

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Chinese President Xi Jinping watches during a gift handover ceremony at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, January 18, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Is War Between a Rising China and a Dominant America Inevitable?

by David Ignatius | Jul 1, 2017 | Opinion

Let’s imagine a Chinese “applied history” project, similar to the one at Harvard’s Belfer Center that helped spawn Professor Graham Allison’s widely discussed book “Destined for War.” Allison’s historical analysis led him to posit a “Thucydides Trap” and the danger...