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Seizing Greenland would shock the world. It shouldn’t.

The United States has often violated international law when that suited its purposes.

Iran is running out of water

Incompetence can be blamed for much of this catastrophe. But even better-run countries will face this problem.

Trump destroys his tough-on-drugs cred

With one hand, he blows up supposed drug traffickers from Venezuela. With the other, he frees one of the world’s biggest cocaine kingpins.

The heroic excavators of government secrets

For 40 years, document nerds at the National Security Archive have been discovering things our leaders would rather you didn’t know. Today their job may be harder than ever.

A peace plan for Ukraine: Painful, imperfect — and inevitable

The world should embrace it.