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Trump, the Autocrat's Preferred Choice
People who’ve fled authoritarianism in Iran, Russia, and elsewhere, are what make America great.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters 5 World Leaders Who Might Benefit From a Trump Presidency
Will the real-estate tycoon really be disastrous for America’s international relations?
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Adrees Latif / Reuters; Mandel Ngan / AFP ... Emotional Highs and Lows From a Historic Election Night
Now that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has conceded the race for president of the United States, and President-elect Donald Trump has made his acceptance speech, a look back at an emotional rollercoaster of a night
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Marcelo del Pozo / Reuters The U.S. Election Through International Headlines
Americans weren’t the only ones watching election day closely.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters 2016 Elections: ISIS Weighs In
Despite the seeming propaganda value of the campaign, the group has been strangely silent about it—until recently.
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Jim Young / Reuters ‘American Democracy Is More Than One Election’
International election observers assess the state of U.S. politics.
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Ahmad Masood / Reuters American Export: Elections
In Afghanistan, I saw the meaning of democracy promotion, and its discontents.
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Google, Inc. Human Landscapes of the American Southwest
Snapshots of human impact on the landscape in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada
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Will Rose / Courtesy of MSF 'They Were Just Like Us, and They Lost Everything'
Can empathy for refugees be taught?
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KCNA / Reuters Donald Trump and the Threat of Nuclear War
The single most important question in this campaign: Which candidate is better equipped to manage the North Korean threat without triggering catastrophe?
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters How Donald Trump Could Change the World
A scholar of U.S. foreign policy explains why the 2016 race could be the most consequential election—anywhere—since the 1930s.
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Grigory Dukor / Reuters What Vladimir Putin Wants From America's Elections
A discussion on the sources of Russian conduct
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Paul Hackett / Reuters Brexit Is Jeopardizing Britain's Intellectual Legacy
The country’s cherished universities are in turmoil over whether their European and foreign professors and students will be able to remain once its membership in the European Union is over.
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Cultural Differences or Abuse?
That question haunted this reader: When I read Olga Khazan’s “A Diary of Toxic Love,”…
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Gene J. Puskar / AP Photos of the Week: 10/29–11/4
Drug rehabilitation in the Philippines, protests in Turkey, surfing in Ireland, the new World Series champion Chicago Cubs, and much more.
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Social Media Website via Reuters TV The ‘Caliph’ Speaks
As ISIS faces defeat in Mosul, its leader breaks a long silence to urge a fight to the death.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Ranked: ‘Trumps’ ’Round the World
Some politicians were tormenting the establishment well before the Donald made it trendy.
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Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters A Portrait From Cuba and a President in Lebanon: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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Mario Tama / Getty Flying Above Antarctica With NASA's Operation IceBridge
Getty Images photographer Mario Tama recently spent several days accompanying NASA scientists making 12-hour research flights over West Antarctica.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters A Blow to Brexit
A court derails the prime minister's plans—for now.
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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.
