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Increase in Hormuz oil traffic is papering over a darker reality
Middle East

Increase in Hormuz oil traffic is papering over a darker reality

Experts say a closer look reveals increasing prices, exhausting reserves, and an unsustainable security situation because Iran is still attacking

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Washington Politics

Red scare: Solid GOP districts reeling from war, price backlash

Some Republicans are trying to address the economic pain of their voters while skirting around Iran criticism. Is it working?

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden
Washington Politics

Do Democrats have bold enough ideas to break from the past?

Americans disagree with the way that Trump is handling world affairs, but can't yet grasp how the opposition would do better

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Asia-Pacific

Why South Korea won’t send military to Strait of Hormuz

Even after considering the US president's threats and the nation's historic ties with Washington, Seoul has insisted that the war in Iran is not its own.

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Middle East

The US kill count in Iran makes the phrase ‘precision strikes’ absurd

Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Azmat Khan says the Pentagon still obfuscates, lies, and manipulates the truth about civilian deaths in war

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Washington Politics

Desperate Republicans are jumping Trump's war ship of doom

Candidates in tight midterm races are trying to distance themselves from the president and his Middle East mess, citing — you guessed it — the economy