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The conditions necessary to negotiate a new nuclear deal and revive commercial ties between Iran and the US are in sight.
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‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’
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An EPA Without Science
The agency’s rollbacks under Lee Zeldin suggest that Trump’s war on the administrative state has become, effectively, a war on the future.
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‘Her Own Cuneiform’
The poet Dunya Mikhail is preoccupied with Iraq’s urgent present, but she studies it with the care of an archaeologist exhuming relics of the deep past.
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Stephen Spender: Death in Jerusalem“Responsibility would have consisted of a day-to-day effort to keep one’s mind free of that banality, from the acceptance of those abstractions which first produced the mind and then the action of an Eichmann. The meaning of this, not only for Germany, but for all of us should be clear.”
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