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FILE - In this file photo taken on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia. The German hospital treating Russian dissident Alexei Navalny says tests indicate that he was poisoned. The Charité hospital said in a statement Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 that the team of doctors who have been examining Navalny since he was admitted Saturday have found the presence of "cholinesterase inhibitors" in his system. Cholinesterase inhibitors are a broad range of substances that are found in several drugs, but also pesticides and nerve agents. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Column: Violence and vindictiveness in Russia

August 26, 2020 at 8:26 a.m.

"A riddle, wrapped in an enigma, inside a mystery." Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union with those words. He was speaking in October 1939, right after World War II...

Column: Hong Kong shows the world the terrible truth about Communist China

August 21, 2020 at 3:27 p.m.

"We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Those were the words of Benjamin Franklin, urging his fellow Americans in the thirteen colonies to stay...

Vice President Richard M. Nixon and family, waving getting off plane arrival, July 25, 1960 at Chicago Airport for Republican Convention with wife, Pat, and their daughters, Julia and Patricia. (AP Photo)

Column: Vice presidents have Nixon to thank for the importance of the office

August 14, 2020 at 9:39 a.m.

The Democratic National Convention scheduled for Milwaukee will now essentially be "virtual" as a result of the COVID-19 public health challenge. Former Vice President Joe Biden secured sufficient party delegates...

President Obama lays wreaths at the cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, on May 27, 2016.

Column: Hiroshima serves as warning to keep nuclear arms race in check

August 5, 2020 at 7:42 a.m.

"Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima?" President Barack Obama asked that question publicly on his visit on May 27, 2016. He was the first sitting U.S. president...

Maj. Gen. Blackshear M. Bryan, left, exchanges credentials with Communist Lt. Gen. Lee Sang Cho at the opening session of the Military Armistice Commission at the Panmunjom Conference House on July 27, 1953. At Lee's right is Chinese Gen. Ting Kuo Jo, and next to him is Chinese Gen. Tsai Cheng Wen.

Column: Korean War armistice and today’s world

July 30, 2020 at 11:36 a.m.

The outbreak of the Korean War on June 25 1950 is referred to publicly with some regularity, but the same is not the case for the end of that brutal...

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before signing an agreement on trade at the InterContinental Barclay New York hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. Japan's Parliament on Wednesday, Dec. 4, approved a trade deal that was agreed upon by President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Abe earlier this year.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Japan-U.S. alliance remains strong, with Pacific and global significance

July 22, 2020 at 8:49 a.m.

Threatening developments in China draw attention to the strong alliance between Japan and the United States. The deterioration of relations between China and the U.S. encompasses trade, espionage and abuse...

FILE - In this April 9, 2019, file photo, Afghans watch a civilian vehicle burnt after being shot by U.S. forces following an attack near the Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Three American service members and a U.S. contractor were killed when their convoy hit a roadside bomb on Monday near the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, the U.S. forces said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Intelligence alleging that Afghan militants might have accepted Russian bounties for killing American troops didn't scuttle the U.S.-Taliban agreement or President Donald Trump's plan to withdraw thousands more troops from the war. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Column: There appears to be more, or less, to the story of Russian bounties on U.S. troops

July 15, 2020 at 8:53 a.m.

"Russia secretly offered Afghan militants bounties to kill U.S. troops, intelligence says." That was the headline in The New York Times on June 26, and other media quickly picked up...

From left, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, talk before President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP)

Column: Our Crucial Supreme Court

July 10, 2020 at 4:54 p.m.

"Judges are not politicians in robes." Judge Neil Gorsuch, nominated for our Supreme Court in 2017, used that phrase to emphasize the law's majesty, and by the way to avoid...

In this May 22, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-In in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, as national security adviser John Bolton, right, watches. Trump says he fired national security adviser John Bolton, says they 'disagreed strongly' on many issues. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

John Bolton’s revenge memoir is a study in clashing personalities

July 2, 2020 at 9:48 a.m.

John Bolton abruptly departed as national security adviser to President Donald Trump in September 2019, after just under a year and a half in the pivotal, exceptionally demanding position. This...

President Harry Truman, speaking before the annual convention of the American Newspaper Guild in Washington June 28, 1950, expressed hope that the U.S., challenge in Korea to the onward march of communism will mean "peace in the world." "We must and we shall give every possible assistance to people who are determined to maintain their independence," he said. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)

The reassuring context of Korea tensions

June 26, 2020 at 11:02 a.m.

"Leaflets of punishment." That is how the weird hermit kingdom of North Korea describes new efforts to distribute propaganda-filled paper in South Korea. Apparently, the internet remains too avant-garde. Pyongyang...

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