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  • Apologia Americana

    What is America’s role in the world? We are committed to defend a quarter of the world’s population. We have bases in over seventy countries. The institutions we helped found after World War II, from the World Bank to NATO, are still operating and healthy. Yet we are more divided than ever, a polarization that…

  • She Came with Flowers in her Hair

    For those of us who like concrete symbolism of progress, little could have trumped yesterday’s meeting between the Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi and President Obama in the Oval Office. Less than two years following her release from house arrest, Suu Kyi has become a globetrotting advocate for her country, urging Western powers to…