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Richard Thaler, left, won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday in part because he realized people act irrationally. Credit Scott Olson/Getty Images


The Art of Thinking Well

The Art of Thinking Well

Richard Thaler has just won an extremely well deserved Nobel Prize in economics. Thaler took an obvious point, that people don’t always behave rationally, and showed the ways we are systematically irrational. Thanks to his work and others’, we know a lot more about...
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People walk past damaged buildings in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria February 9, 2016. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh


Syria: The Myth of a Regime Victorious

Syria: The Myth of a Regime Victorious

These are my last days as the UK Special Representative for Syria. As I look back at three short years in this role, much has changed in Syria, and yet much has remained the same. For sure, this conflict has seen far worse times and atrocities, the vast majority of...
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French President Emmanuel Macron (C) speaks to the media as German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R), European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (L) and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (2nd from L) look on following a meeting of European Union leaders at the Chancellery on June 29, 2017 in Berlin | Sean Gallup/Getty Images


What Congress Should Do Now About Iran

What Congress Should Do Now About Iran

You’re a member of Congress who opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the grounds that the plan had critical flaws and the Obama administration had in essence given away too much without permanently cutting off Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon. However, you...
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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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President Donald Trump holds a rally with supporters at an arena in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 21, 2017. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters


In Dealing with North Korea, Trump Needs Allies

In Dealing with North Korea, Trump Needs Allies

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has defiance in his blood. It’s said his grandfather once asked what would happen if the United States defeated North Korea in war, to which his father answered: “If we lose, I will be sure to destroy the Earth. What good is the Earth...