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Aug 30, 2018
How Chinese Loans to Africa Threaten U.S. National Security
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by Grant T. Harris
Aug 29, 2018
What the World Can Learn from the Greek Debt Crisis
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by Ian Bremmer and Leon Levy
Aug 28, 2018
A Reunion: Discovering My Father's World War II Heroism
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by Lea Carpenter
Aug 28, 2018
How the South Memorializes — and Forgets — Its History of Lynching
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by TIME Staff
Aug 28, 2018
Why Being Lazy Is Actually Good for You
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by Chris Bailey
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Aug 26, 2018
John McCain Was a Legend Even Before He Was a War Hero. His Legacy Is Vital in Today's World
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by James Stavridis
Aug 26, 2018
Sen. Tim Kaine: What John McCain Taught Me About Governing, Losing and Life
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by Tim Kaine
Aug 25, 2018
How Lauryn Hill Educated the Music Industry 20 Years Ago
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by Brandon Tensley
Aug 23, 2018
When the Dying Things Are Done
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by Susanna Schrobsdorff
Aug 23, 2018
Tokyo Medical School Scandal Shows Japan's Deep-Rooted Sexism
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by Hiroka Shoji
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Aug 23, 2018
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu Remembers Kofi Annan
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by Desmond Tutu
Aug 23, 2018
'A Monumental Leader': U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Remembers His Predecessor Kofi Annan
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by Ban Ki-moon
Aug 22, 2018
I Was a Lawyer for Spiro Agnew. President Trump Should Consider Resigning
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by Martin London
Aug 22, 2018
What the Catholic Church Crisis Should Teach Us About President Trump’s ‘Witch Hunt’ Claims
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by Paul Elie
Aug 21, 2018
These Men Offered 'Perfection in Cremation Technology' to the Nazis. We Can Learn From the Records They Left
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by Karen Bartlett