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Is the End of the INF Treaty the End of the Cold War?

When President Trump announced that the United States was suspending the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, reactions to the decision were strong. The news made headlines and generated plenty of thoughts about the future of nuclear weapons as well as the […]

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Hypocrisy On All Sides in Ukraine

Recent events in Ukraine have driven a return to a debate that has long simmered below the surface — between the U.S. and Western Europe on one side and Russia on the other. There have been many cold war analogies drawn about the Ukraine […]

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Fighting for Justice in El Salvador, Four Decades and Counting

Years before the civil war in El Salvador officially began, government-funded death squads had been killing and disappearing those identified as anti-government dissenters—including clergy, community and union organizers, students and professors—in a conflict that pitted a few elite families allied with […]