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Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s ascent to the national stage has been at once a long time coming—the chief executive of the country’s 68th-largest city received Time cover treatment four years ago—and unexpectedly accelerated since Senator Frank Lautenberg died earlier this month.

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The German director Margarethe von Trotta has had such a long and fascinating career that, if there were justice in these matters—which idea is laughable—she would be treasured by more than who do so now. Beginning in 1975 she has made films that dealt with women, known and unknown, all of which were wonderfully persuasive.

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The president has many options on Syria—though none is guaranteed to produce a good outcome.

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An Israeli Strike, An American Message

The bombing of weapons in Syria has as much to do with Iran

How the bombing of weapons in Syria sends a message to Iran, too.

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Obama's Big Israel Breakthrough

Thursday's speech may have singlehandedly repaired a rocky relationship

Barack Obama came to Jerusalem to win over the Israeli people, and with a single speech he did. It happened when he addressed an audience of several thousand young people in Jerusalem and delivered what may have been the most passionate Zionist speech ever given by an American president.

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How Obama Can Learn to Speak Israeli

Advice to the president on his visit

If Obama presents a "yes we can" approach to peace, Israelis will tune him out.

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"It's Just a Matter of Time"

A conversation with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert about the two-state solution

A conversation with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert about the two-state solution.

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The End of the Two-State Solution

Why the window is closing on Middle-East peace

We're on the cusp of a generational shift that will make the dream of peace not just implausible but impossible.

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The (Very) Quiet Peace Talks Between Israel and Hamas

The Middle East's storm clouds have a silver lining

The Middle East's storm clouds have a silver lining.

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Clueless in Gaza

New evidence that Bush undermined a two-state solution

George W. Bush's started a secret war on Hamas. Is Obama continuing it?

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