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What World Health Organization Did Wrong On Ebola Response
The 2013 outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone claimed over 11,000 lives. The World Health Organization was heavily criticized for its response to the outbreak, with some claiming that its efforts actually exacerbated the suffering. Stung by these charges, WHO commissioned a group of independent experts to assess its response and recommend improvements…. -
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Prime Minister Abe Atones for Japan’s Past Actions
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II by releasing a highly anticipated statement to make amends to Japan’s neighbors. Abe went further than many would predicted even recently in acknowledging Japan’s wartime actions. Most notably, he included several key phrases from statements by his predecessors, including aggression,… -
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10 Lessons From North Korea Nuclear Deal That Must Be Applied to Iran Deal
For decades, the U.S. and other nations have engaged in negotiations to achieve North Korean denuclearization. Pyongyang signed several agreements promising never to build nuclear weapons and then several more pledging to give up the weapons it agreed to not build in the first place. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un now rejects dialogue with the… -
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John Kasich: The US Should Be Providing Aid to Ukraine
DERRY, N.H.— During a campaign stop at a town hall in New Hampshire today, Ohio Gov. John Kasich said the United States should be aiding Ukraine against Russian aggression. “For the life of me, I cannot understand why we are not giving the Ukrainians [the ability] to defend themselves against Putin and the Russians,” Kasich… -
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Meet Ukraine’s Women Warriors
KYIV, Ukraine—It was called position 18. The house, which was yellow and had its roof caved in from artillery hits, was only a hundred meters or so behind the front-line trenches in Pisky, Ukraine. Shrapnel and bullet holes had shredded the exterior walls, leaving the yellow paint polka-dotted by the grey concrete underneath. The soldiers… -
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How a Swedish Sniper Found Redemption in the Ukraine War
KYIV, Ukraine—This was supposed to be a routine reconnaissance mission, but suddenly it became complicated. They had been crawling in the woods to stay concealed when the jeep with four separatists inside pulled up and parked along the road a few hundred meters away. They had two options: Start running, or the other thing. Mikael Skillt… -
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How to Combat Putin’s Propaganda War
The war is on. Russian President Vladimir Putin has unleashed a vast information network across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as within the European Union. This network uses a very developed and coordinated use of social media networks and traditional news media outlets, as well as influence among European politicians, like former German Chancellor… -
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Why The Chinese Stock Market Continues to Unravel
As the Chinese stock market unravels, liberal economists are eating their words on the supposed benefits of heavy government intervention in the financial sector. On Monday, the Shanghai stock index declined by 8.5 percent, the largest single-day drop in 8 years. Before this point, the government had already taken extraordinary steps to further preserve the… -
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Putin Expands Russian Navy As America’s Fleet Shrinks
President Vladimir Putin set a new course for the Russian navy recently. While presiding over “Navy Day” in Baltiysk, Russia, he formally approved changes to Russia’s naval doctrine. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced the new naval doctrine at the Baltiysk naval station. Located in the strategically important Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, the installation… -
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Remembering the Man Who Exposed Communist Russia’s Murders of Millions
Conservative historian, poet and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Robert Conquest passed away on Monday, leaving behind a legacy of vital support for freedom. Robert Conquest was born in 1917, the son of a British mother and an American father. He is best known for his book “The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties,”… -
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Forget Cecil. Legal Hunting Benefits Africa.
Lost in the outrage over the death of Cecil the Lion is the plight of the people of Zimbabwe and the fact that big game hunting actually helps Africa. On July 1, a lion known as Cecil, who was popular with safari-goers in Zimbabwe, was killed by a hunter after being lured out of a national… -
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University Cop Who Killed Unarmed Motorist Charged With Murder
The University of Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot Samuel DuBose during a routine traffic stop on July 19 was indicted on murder charges Wednesday. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters called the shooting “senseless” and said he would treat the officer, Ray Tensing, “like a murderer.” “I’ve been doing this for over 30 years,” Deters… -
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Young Couple Creates Video Tribute for Baby Who Passed in Womb
When Billy Jack and Sara Brawner found out they were pregnant in November 2013, they were overjoyed. Having previously endured a miscarriage, they found every moment of their pregnancy to be nothing short of a miracle. Then, last summer, when Sara was 34 weeks pregnant with a little girl to be named Willa Rose, the… -
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13 Things You Should Know About the Man Who Wants to Oust John Boehner
Rep. Mark Meadows, the conservative congressman pushing a motion to oust John Boehner as speaker, has insisted he does not like “being in the limelight.” However, his latest challenge to GOP leadership has catapulted his name across headlines, showing a defiant side to the man often described as the “friendliest guy in the House.” Here… -
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What Is Life Really Like in North Korea? One Woman’s Story
As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee believed that her country was the best on the planet. She believed that Americans were evil, South Koreans were starving to death and North Koreans were better off than everybody else. Every North Korean believes this. She discusses this at length in her new novel,… -
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US Support Quietly Increases for Ukraine as Peace Remains Elusive
KYIV, Ukraine—A Department of Defense plan to send Ukraine advanced, long-range counter-battery radars highlights both an evolution of the Ukraine war and a ratcheting up of U.S. military support for the post-Soviet state, which continues to fight a war in its eastern territories against combined Russian-separatist forces. On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported on… -
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How Obama’s Poor Judgment Led to the Chinese Hack of OPM
The maxim that “personnel is policy” transcends partisan affiliations and political labels. Every president, including President Barack Obama, has the authority to staff federal agencies with loyal political appointees. Given the deep pool of experienced talent from which presidents can draw, philosophical alignment and management competence are not mutually exclusive. Presidents place America at risk… -
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Chamber of Commerce Ready to Unseat Conservatives Who Buck Its Agenda
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is paving the way to unseat “obstructionist” Republicans in the House who have successfully blocked much of the organization’s agenda. The move is spurred by Chamber frustration after the group poured nearly $70 million into the 2014 election to strengthen the Republican coalition in the Senate, only to have its… -
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Surprise! North Korea Will Keep Its Nukes
Not that there was any doubt, but North Korea publicly rejected any interest in following Iran into denuclearization negotiations with the U.S. The North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that Pyongyang “is not interested at all in the dialogue to discuss the issue of making it freeze or dismantle its nukes unilaterally first [since… -
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Why Are Russian Hackers Posing as ISIS Propagandists?
The multi-front cyberspace information war in which we recently have found ourselves just got a little more complicated. A group which calls itself Cyber Caliphate, assumed to have ties to the terrorist group ISIS, may in fact be a creation of Russian hackers taking advantage of the havoc wrecked on social media and the Internet…