We don’t want our children patrolling hostile streets in Greenland or Canada any more than in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.

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One reason for the toxicity of American politics may be that our quality of life is slipping behind our peers’.

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