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Qatar and US defense leaders agree to transition part of an Idaho air force base into a Qatari flight training facility. Not a wholly Qatari base on US soil, despite what some internet rumors say. (ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Getty Images)

Qatar isn't getting a US air force base

CK Smith
Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam (R) shakes hands with Professor Pericles Lewis (C), president of Yale-NUS college after officiating the inauguration ceremony to mark the start of the Yale-NUS College while other officials look on in SIngapore on August 27, 2013. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Yale's Singapore venture failed

Jim Sleeper
A worker carries out sanitation operations for the Coronavirus emergency in Piazza dei Miracoli near to the Tower of Pisa in a deserted town on March 17, 2020 in Pisa, Italy. | Medical staff wearing protective clothing take test samples for the COVID-19 coronavirus from a foreign passenger at a virus testing booth outside Incheon international airport, west of Seoul, on April 1, 2020. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How the West blew it on the pandemic

Josef Bouska
(Getty/RomoloTavani)

Putin warns of threat of nuclear war

Shira Tarlo
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Thomas Friedman (AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Thomas Friedman's crazy bad economics

Jim Naureckas
Albert Einstein (Getty Images)

What Einstein's travel diaries reveal

Rachel Leah
Kim Jong-un; Donald Trump (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

After Singapore: Did Trump get played?

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump listens to a question during a news conference at the G-7 summit, June 9, 2018 (AP/Evan Vucci)

How to beat Trump: Expect chaos

Jared Yates Sexton
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Kim Jong Un shakes hands with Donald Trump after taking part in a signing ceremony at the US-North Korea summit, June 12, 2018. (Getty/Anthony Wallace)

Donald Trump: Nobel laureate?

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump; Kim Jong-un; John Bolton (AP/Getty/Shutterstock)

Trump and Kim's big nothing summit

Heather Digby Parton
Kim Jong-Un; Donald Trump; Justin Trudeau (Getty Images/Photo montage by Salon)

Another weekend of total Trump insanity

Heather Digby Parton
Angela Merkel; Donald Trump; Theresa May (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump insults allies, crushes on tyrant

Heather Digby Parton
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Mike Pompeo; Donald Trump; John Bolton; Steve Bannon (Getty/AP/Salon)

Trump-Kim summit close to meltdown

Heather Digby Parton
(Getty Images)

How to improve happiness in America

Rachel Leah
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-539572p1.html'>Nomad_Soul</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Ben Norton
Rudy Giuliani, Lee Kuan Yew (AP/Reuters/Richard Drew/Wong Maye-E/Photo montage by Salon)

The iron grip of Lee Kuan Yew

Jim Sleeper
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(AP/Joseph Nair)

We're eulogizing a monster

Patrick L. Smith
Singapore (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-118804p1.html'>beboy</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The utopian police state

Henry Grabar
(Shutterstock/Sean Pavone)

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Marie Dhumieres - GlobalPost
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The ICZN settled a 200-year dispute over the scientific name of the Aldabra tortoise earlier this year. (Wikimedia Commons)

Lindsay Abrams
(AP/Kin Cheung)

Thanyarat Doksone
USS Freedom (Wikimedia/U.S. Navy)

Natasha Lennard
Indian students shout slogans as they march a street during a protest in New Delhi, India. (AP/Altaf Qadri)

Associated Press
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