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  • Putting the Pieces Together After a Summer of Riots

    Putting the Pieces Together After a Summer of Riots0

    The other day, I drove past the place where it all started. One pulls up to the flashing red stoplight and looks left to check for traffic. There’s no need to look right, because the traffic won’t be there. Instead, one sees cement barricades, covered with scrawling graffiti, and a block down, the now nationally

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  • Putting a Ring on It, for the Children’s Sake

    Putting a Ring on It, for the Children’s Sake0

    Hollywood actor, producer and professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson might be good at a few things, but marriage isn’t one of them. He is divorced from his first wife (mother of his 16-year-old daughter) and has not married his current partner. It’s a pity, because he is about to become a dad for the third time and

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  • Putting a Blowtorch to ‘Toxic Masculinity’

    Putting a Blowtorch to ‘Toxic Masculinity’0

    With Australia’s catastrophic bushfires making headlines around the world, newspapers featured a photo of an iconic kangaroo illuminated by an apocalyptic scene of a burning house. But worse than the hundreds of houses lost or the millions of hectares of land burnt are the fatalities. So far at least 19 people have died, with dozens

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  • Putin’s Claim on Crimea: Spurious or Legit?

    Putin’s Claim on Crimea: Spurious or Legit?0

    In an interview with ABC News last July, then-candidate Donald Trump said: “You know the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.”  Sounds about right: the ethnic split in Crimea is more than 65 percent Russian versus 15 percent Ukrainian.  The results of a poll by

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  • Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine

    Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine0

    When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved troops into Mexico, overthrew the regime of Benito Juarez, set up a monarchy and put Austrian Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg on the throne as Emperor of Mexico—one month before Gettysburg. Preoccupied, the Union did nothing. At war’s

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  • Putin and Xi Have Red Lines, Too

    Putin and Xi Have Red Lines, Too0

    What are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping up to? In recent days, Russian tanks, artillery, armor, trucks, and troops have been moving by road and rail ever closer to Ukraine, and Moscow is said to be repositioning its 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade in Crimea. Military sources in Kyiv estimate there are now 85,000 Russian

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