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The country Trump once disdained as a burden has become a military powerhouse.
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The scandals of the president’s first term now seem quaint.
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The country’s most beloved men are paragons of diversity, but ethnic resentment is still winning.
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While Europe braces for yet another heat wave, prolonged drought conditions have dropped inland waterways to record-setting low levels, exposing long-submerged shipwrecks and affecting navigation.
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In the aftermath of pandemics, people either try to forget them or find others to blame for them.
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The former Senate GOP leader’s legacy will make America harder to govern for years to come.
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When Michaeleen Doucleff met parents from around the world, she encountered millennia-old methods of raising good kids that made American parenting seem bizarre and ineffective. (From 2021)
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“Air conditioning and outer space have a history that goes back further than ballpoint pens that write upside down.” (From 2015)
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