From a comment posted on the website elaph.com in March by the “digital outreach team” of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs. The team, which consists of…

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The friendship of Wordsworth and Coleridge

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The metamorphosis of conflict

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Surviving the cancer unit

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An online interactive psycho-pharmacopoeia

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” The undoing of the American character has a long history. It took more than half a century from a summer’s day in August, when the…

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” On a rainy day in 1945, soon after U.S. troops had entered the German concentration camp at Dachau, the American commanding officer mounted a stage.…

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” It has always been the case that failed wars damage armies and sometimes break them. So it is with Iraq, unless remedies intervene soon enough.…

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” By far the most significant intelligence error of the Bush Administration has been the decision, contrary to established American policy and common sense, to treat…

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” On Thursday, June 6, 2002, FBI agent Coleen Rowley testified before Congress that 9/11 might have been avoided had her agency been better organized to…

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” Two economic calamities have occurred on George W. Bush’s watch. The first has been a radically overvalued dollar, which, it should be noted, is a…

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” Try, if you will, to summarize the Bush Administration’s position on the science of global warming. In 2006, the president could be found stating that…

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” One of the best things about the departure of the Bush Administration will be the end of headache-creating cognitive dissonance. It has taken over institutions…

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” In January of 2005, top Justice Department officials began making plans to remove up to 20 percent of the nation’s U.S. attorneys—those deemed not to…

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” One way to know that George Bush is going to do something is for him to say he doesn’t believe in it. The most famous…

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From the Forum “Undoing Bush” No one has captured George W. Bush’s understanding of constitutional law more precisely or presciently than Richard M. Nixon, who famously (and incorrectly) told David…

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How to repair eight years of sabotage, bungling, and neglect

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Meditations on a diminishing world

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