Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.

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Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.

One reason for the toxicity of American politics may be that our quality of life is slipping behind our peers’.

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One reason for the toxicity of American politics may be that our quality of life is slipping behind our peers’.

“The protesters increasingly don’t just want reform, they want to topple the entire theocratic regime,” says the Opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof.

Many are celebrating the ouster of a brutal dictator, but the Maduro regime may survive the loss of Maduro.

President Nicolás Maduro “was a disaster for Venezuela and for the entire region,” says the columnist Nicholas Kristof. But at the same time, “it is much easier to topple a dictator than to institute a democratic populist government in its place.”

With Trump’s health care cuts, I traveled to Ohio, Mississippi and Alabama — and encountered devastated families bracing for even more difficult challenges.