Viewpoints
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Singapore the Improbable Part I
A Primer for Innocents at Home and Abroad

Singapore does not contain the same multitudes as does Walt Whitman’s America; it contains multitudes of its own, and they are remarkably capacious for such a small place whose modern history does not antedate America.

R.I.P.
The Jacques Chirac I Knew

In memoriam.

(Henry Alken, Art Institute of Chicago)
Field Experiment
What I Learned from Listening to Americans Deliberate

Turns out most Americans want the same thing: to be heard and understood.

Fallout
It’s Ukraine That Loses in Whistleblower-Gate

The people who will get hurt the most from Donald Trump’s despicable dirty tricks are Ukrainians trying to root out corruption.

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What To Do About Iran
An Eye-For-An-Eye Response

A limited aerial attack on Iranian oil facilities would signal to the mullahs—and the world—that the United States will match Iranian attacks but not go beyond them.

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The King in the North
The Arctic Is American

Washington has put Moscow and Beijing on notice: The Arctic doesn’t belong to you.

(Arnold Genthe, Art Institute of Chicago)
Communicative Insanity
The Death of the Neutral Public Sphere

The “marketplace of ideas” looks as corrupt in 2019 as the “free market” did in 2008.

(U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Robert M. Trujillo)
Probabilities
Asking the Right Question on Climate Change

Since we can’t be certain that the globe is warming, and we can’t be certain that it isn’t, we are essentially in the position of a homeowner deciding whether to buy fire insurance. Buying insurance is generally a good idea.

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Trading Places
The European Union Honors Competition More Than the “Land of the Free”

Why are cellphone plans and cable charges lower in Europe than in America? New research explains why EU trustbusters have outpaced their U.S. colleagues.

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Defending the Rimland
As China Surges, Europe Is on the Menu

China’s naval expansion and commercial push into Europe are aimed at redefining the global trade and security system to the detriment of the democratic West. Europe and the U.S. need to wake up to the challenge.

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