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With your people, you won’t perish.” Without the protection and support of one’s people, ruin becomes inevitable. A small problem arises, however, when we seek to determine who counts among “your ...

The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decadeslong series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and ...

History books often tidy the past into clean timelines, big events, and names worth remembering. But fiction dares to do what textbooks don’t; it sits with the unspoken, the personal, and the ...