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Notably, the great opportunity for the United States that follows from the elimination of Sulaymani and Muhandis lies not with Iran, but with Iraq, explains Kenneth Pollack. The key is whether the US is prepared to move Iraqi politics in a better direction and whether the Trump administration is even interested in doing so.
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Trump's strike on Qassem Soleimani was a bold response to Iran, but Iran's reaction will be the ultimate test for Trump's strategy in the Middle East, explains Matthew Continetti.
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Nicholas Eberstadt writes that the old North Korean nuclear crisis is back on — only, it has just entered a deadly serious phase. The United States’ only option for precluding this nightmare is to bring down the hammer on the Kim regime before its capabilities expand even further.
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How do we best target retirement benefits to recipients with greater need? Alan Viard and Sita Slavov argue for benefit targeting based on lifetime labor earnings and describe how to implement it.
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Pop culture gives the impression that marriage in America is on the ropes, but in reality there is good news to report about the state of the American family, write W. Bradford Wilcox and Alysse ElHage.
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The natural tendency of most people is to ignore positive trends. But at year’s and decade’s end, our grumbling society is closer to the best than to the worst of times, writes Michael Barone.
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The start of the new year was tempered and made somber and more serious by the loss of AEI’s great friend Gertrude Himmelfarb. Known to family and friends as Bea Kristol (1922–2019), she was a national treasure and a highly valued member of the AEI family for more than three decades.

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