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Should Calling for ‘Fewer Moroccans’ Be Considered Hate Speech?
The trial of Geert Wilders tests the limits of free discourse.
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Thierry Bornier / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer ... 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest, Part II
National Geographic Magazine’s annual photo contest is still under way, but the deadline for submissions is coming up on Friday.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Is the CIA Ready for the Age of Cyberwar?
Behind the most sweeping reforms in the agency’s history—and their limits
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Win McNamee / Getty, Brendan Smialowski / Getty ... Clinton and Trump on the Campaign Trail: One Final Look
With just one week left until the end of this historic and seemingly endless presidential campaign season, I’ve gathered 20 photos from each of the major campaigns over the past 18 months.
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Erik de Castro / Reuters The Limits of Rodrigo Duterte's Anti-Americanism
The fiery president of the Philippines wants to bring his country out of Washington’s shadow. But how far can he go?
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Alexei Nikolsky / Sputnik Photo Agency / Reuters Trump, Putin, and the Alt-Right International
In boosting Trump and funding fringe parties in Europe, Russia has helped construct a new kind of "comintern"—and it's even more effective than the Cold War version.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters Photos of Halloween 2016
Images of people parading, trick-or-treating, partying, or getting scared silly in haunted houses, from around the world.
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Daniella Zalcman Erasing Indigenous Heritage
Portraits and interviews with native Canadians abused within the government’s Indian Residential School system
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Carlos Eduardo Ramirez / Reuters How Much Longer Can Venezuela Go On Like This?
Large numbers of citizens want to oust President Nicolas Maduro. But he commands the loyalty of many men with guns.
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Colin McPherson / Getty How Did Maajid Nawaz End Up on a List of 'Anti-Muslim Extremists'?
“They put a target on my head.”
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Marco Ugarte / AP Photos of the Week: 10/22–10/28
Sculpture by the Sea in Australia, a bison roundup in Utah, fighting in Iraq and Syria, on the campaign trail in New Hampshire and Florida, pipeline protests in North Dakota, and much more.
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Khaled Al Hariri / Reuters Ranked: Authoritarians Condescending to America About Its Elections
“If half the things said here are true, neither can be president of the United States or any other country.”
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Stine Jacobsen / Reuters Pirates for Iceland and Danes Against Donald: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters The Shia Power Brokers of the New Iraq
As the embattled country wages war on ISIS in the north, its future may be decided by clerics in the south.
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Chris McGrath / Getty Scenes From Underground
Recent subterranean scenes from around the world
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters Why Thousands of Women in Iceland Left Work Two Hours Early This Week
They were essentially saying: If I were a man, I might have earned my paycheck by now.
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Zoubeir Souissi / Reuters How Should Culture Affect Foreign Policy?
Western ideas—which many in the West believe are universal—collide with the ideals of Middle Eastern societies in ways that aren't always obvious.
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Christopher Furlong / Getty France Dismantles 'The Jungle' in Calais
A small camp in Calais, France, housing nearly 8,000 migrants hoping to cross into England, is being evacuated and torn down in what French authorities are calling a “humanitarian” operation.
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Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters 'We Are Killing the Leadership of ISIS'
In Iraq, elite American fighters—not just local forces—are hunting some of the most feared terrorists in the world.
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David Goldman / AP Photos of a Divided America
For much of the past year, Associated Press photographers have been gathering images of the people and places at the heart of multiple issues dividing Americans this election year.
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Reuters What the Syrian Kurds Have Wrought
The radical, unlikely, democratic experiment in northern Syria
