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Mildred and Richard Loving in 1965. Credit Estate of Grey Villet


How Interracial Love Is Saving America

How Interracial Love Is Saving America

As a descendant of slaves and slaveholders, I embody uncomfortable incongruities — just as America does. In “Notes on the State of Virginia,” Thomas Jefferson wrote with anguish about the risks of amalgamation, or interracial sex, to a new nation. Whites were...
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Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum (C), ruler of Dubai, attends the first day of the government summit in Dubai, on February 10, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/Marwan Naamani)


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Opinion: When Lebanese Democracy Talks

Opinion: When Lebanese Democracy Talks

The controversy surrounding the election of Donald Trump as US president made many outside America have another look at how its electoral system works. However, controversy is surely not limited to America; it extends to Lebanon, a faraway small country that boasts...
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Donald Trump. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)


Is America at its Greatest what Trump has in Mind?

Is America at its Greatest what Trump has in Mind?

For America, 2016 was a dark year. The country was still at war. Our election was a brutal grudge match that left us more polarized than ever. Our closest allies were rocked by terrorism and turmoil. Adversaries toyed with our politics. Even the basic facts about life...