Why a sin tax on opioids is not like a sin tax on sugary drinks.
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The Opioid Crisis: A Physician Reviews “Empire of Pain”
The pain-management needs of my patients were complex. The Sacklers’ marketing of addiction was not.
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Nobody Cares Who Lost Afghanistan
The fall of Kabul is a tragedy. It’s not a political liability for Joe Biden.
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“If Killing People Would Win This, We’d Have Won a Long Time Ago”
Conducting U.S. foreign policy through the military didn’t work in Afghanistan, and won’t likely work anyplace else.
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Tucker Carlson Didn’t Invent Authoritarian Tourism
L. Brent Bozell and the romance of Spanish fascism.
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Let’s Hope We Uphold Our Obligations To Afghan Refugees Better Than We Did for Central Americans
As in Afghanistan, failed U.S. policies put Central Americans in danger. Yet like Trump before him, Biden’s slamming the door in their faces.
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What the Vietnamese Will Ask Kamala Harris When She Visits
Lecturing in Ho Chi Minh City recently, I learned how urgently bright young people there want to understand what’s happening here. Their future may depend on it.
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Don’t Malign the Nine Moderates Holding Up the Budget Bill
These House Democrats may have more power than you think.
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America Has A Deep Moral Obligation to Accept More Afghan Refugees
As of this writing, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated far faster than even most pessimists expected. The Taliban are already in Kabul. Perhaps it was always a pointless mission, a horror for all the Afghans who have suffered and the coalition soldiers who sacrificed so much. Analyses are already pouring in dissecting what went […]
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Afghanistan Meant Nothing
A veteran reflects on 20 wasted years.
