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Sebastian Mallaby: Behind the ‘power law’: How a forgotten venture capitalist kick-started Silicon Valley
Ruth Marcus: The Rule of Six: A newly radicalized Supreme Court is poised to reshape the nation
Perry Bacon Jr.: Have Democrats reached the limits of White appeasement politics?
Robert Kagan: Our constitutional crisis is already here
George F. Will: The pursuit of happiness is happiness
Robert Kagan: It wasn’t hubris that drove America into Afghanistan. It was fear.
Megan McArdle: America forgot how to make proper pie. Can we remember before it’s too late?
Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh: In Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s clerics have groomed and promoted their ruthless enforcer
Michele L. Norris: Germany faced its horrible past. Can we do the same?
Karen Tumulty: How Nancy Reagan helped end the Cold War
Josh Rogin: How covid hastened the decline and fall of the U.S.-China relationship
Mike Abramowitz and Nate Schenkkan: The reach of authoritarian repression is growing. Now, not even exile is safe.
George T. Conway III: Trump’s new reality: Ex-president, private citizen and, perhaps, criminal defendant
Fareed Zakaria: The pandemic upended the present. But it’s given us a chance to remake the future.
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