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In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian presidency, President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with a group of Foreign Ministry officials in Tehran on Sunday. Rouhani warned President Donald Trump against provoking his country while

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OPINION: Trump Has Acted Foolishly On Iran. Let's Hope He Avoids War

4:19pm July 25, 2018

Right now, the best we can hope for is that the administration manages to muddle through and avoid a dangerous and unnecessary war, write former senior State Department officials.

President Trump told the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo.: "What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."

Politics & Government

Opinion: Why 'Fact Checking' and 'Reality Check' Do Not Apply to Trump

3:48pm July 25, 2018

by Ron Elving

The moment when the president articulated his attitude with pithy perfection came when he told the Veterans of Foreign Wars that "what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."

Linguist Geoff Nunberg says none of the differences between American and British English would be interesting if the nations didn't share a core vocabulary grown from a common literary tradition.

Opinion: U.S. And U.K. Remain United, Not Divided, By Their Common Language

3:40pm July 17, 2018

by Geoff Nunberg

Linguist Geoff Nunberg says none of the differences between American and British English would be interesting if the nations didn't share a core vocabulary grown from a common literary tradition.

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President Trump's and Russian President Vladimir Putin's summit was a meeting between allies, with convergent interests and common goals, according to a Brookings Institution fellow.

Opinion: The United States And Russia Aren't Allies. But Trump And Putin Are

2:36pm July 17, 2018

by Robert Kagan

Monday's Trump-Putin summit was not a meeting between adversaries, writes Brookings Institution senior fellow Robert Kagan. It was a meeting between allies, with convergent interests and common goals.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (front left), Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May attend the opening ceremony at the NATO summit Tuesday in Brussels.

OPINION: The Problem With Trump's Wrecking Ball Approach To NATO

6:05pm July 13, 2018

by Ben Hodges

The U.S. president publicly humiliated our most important allies and then said everything was great. We need positive, unifying leadership, writes a former U.S. Army Europe commander.

George Mwinnyaa on his visit to the slave castle at Cape Coast in his homeland of Ghana. The door leads to the cells where captives who were resistant were held prior to being sent over the ocean as slaves.

Opinion: What Zora Neale Hurston's Best-Seller Taught This African About Slavery

3:34pm July 04, 2018

by George Mwinnya

The author grew up in Ghana and had certain impressions of what happened during the slave era. And then he read Barracoon.

The portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung (left) and Kim Jong Il are displayed in Kim Il Sung square in central Pyongyang. A succession of rulers have held talks with U.S. officials.

Opinion: What I Learned From Long Months Of North Korea Talks

7:10pm June 28, 2018

by Joel Wit

Former State Department official Joel Wit has taken part in U.S. negotiations with North Korea for 25 years. Here are some key tips for the Trump administration.

There aren't hard numbers on who is searching and how many, but many adoption agencies in the U.S. confirm that they've seen an uptick in international adoptees searching for their biological parents over the last decade or so.

I Found My Birth Mother. It Didn't Rock My Life — And That's OK

4:14pm June 26, 2018

by Ashley Westerman

A common mantra in the international adoption community in the U.S. is that everyone has their own adoption story. I assume everyone has a unique reunion with their biological parent, too.

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Patton Oswalt On Being Funny In Tough Times

1:22pm June 25, 2018

He says it's possible the current times "will forever explode the cliché that when things are bad, it must be great for comedians."

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, pictured above at the White House daily briefing on Monday, was heckled inside a Mexican restaurant.

Politics & Government

The Hypocrisy Of Eating At Mexican Restaurants

4:41pm June 23, 2018

by Monique Truong

In the past week, two of the most vocal advocates for the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy were heckled while eating at Mexican restaurants in Washington.