Latest articles by Noah Millman
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The high risk and low reward of harassing Trump officials
opinion You can't harass Trump out of the White House — but you can help him solidify his most dangerous kind of support
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Trolls at the border
opinion Trump's child separation policy was purposefully designed to be met with outrage. Here's why.
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Why Trump was happy to surrender so much to Kim Jong Un
opinion Everyone presumes Trump's primary objective in Singapore was to achieve North Korean denuclearization with minimal consequence to America's own position in Asia. What if that wasn't the goal at all?
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There is no constitutional right to vote. There should be.
opinion Here's why the Supreme Court can rule against voting rights and what can be done about it
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The value of an obnoxious president
opinion Trump's policies would make America's allies mad even if he wasn't such a jerk
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Italy's game of euro chicken
opinion It will surely swerve first
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Portnoy's Complaint, and mine
opinion What Philip Roth meant to a young man dreaming of being an author
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The great fertility reversion
The Explainer Here's why America's plummeting birth rate isn't that exceptional
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The optimistic case for Trump's Iran decision
opinion How withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement could accidentally lead to peace
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The main lesson of Eric Schneiderman's loathsome hypocrisy
opinion You can't tell someone's character from their professed politics
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How the government can save journalism
opinion The government once required broadcasters to devote a certain amount of time to public interest programming. Why not update this policy for the internet age?
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The Korean spring cleaning
The Explainer Why is peace finally in the air?
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Mike Pompeo's secret trip to North Korea makes zero sense
opinion What was he sent to accomplish?
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The irrelevancy of Paul Ryan
opinion In the Trump era, the House speaker ceased to matter because Congress itself ceased to matter
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America sows chaos
opinion How did the U.S. become a revisionist power?
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The Atlantic's baffling Williamson affair
opinion On the rise and very quick fall of the magazine's resident provocateur
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John Bolton is exactly what Trump promised
opinion An unabashed nationalist picked a bloodthirsty warmonger for national security adviser. This is not surprising.
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Rex Tillerson's lamentable legacy
opinion Why the worst secretary of state in American history didn't stand a chance
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The problem with America's biggest exports
The Explainer American trade policy now revolves around intellectual property
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China is now just another autocracy
The Explainer On the long-lasting consequences of Xi Jinping's power grab
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Why the Parkland conspiracy theories are different
The Explainer They aren't an attempt to make crazy sense of a senseless tragedy. They are a way of saying to the tragedy's victims and survivors: You aren't even worth arguing with.
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Is America the main obstacle to peace in Korea?
The Explainer There's only one way Korea would unify — and the United States won't stand for it
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Berlin's wall and ours
The Explainer What that signifier of the Cold War indicates about our unsettled historical moment
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The case for auctioning visas
opinion Maybe America should just put a price on a green card. Literally.
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