It is time to reexamine the concepts of containment, deterrence and alliances to determine how and where each is suited for the 21st century.

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Faridoon Hazeen does not sleep well. He checks his phone at all hours, monitoring Twitter for the latest developments in the Taliban’s campaign to seize Afghanistan.

The Dixie Fire, the eighth-largest wildfire in California history, has burned more than 278,000 acres and destroyed much of Greenville.