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When I talked with Israeli national-security officials last year, the most realistic of them spoke of Gaza’s future as resembling the West Bank today.

In the 1970s, Martha Goddard invented the rape kit. So why did she die in relative obscurity?

“Every drink takes five minutes off your life.” Maybe the thought scares you. Personally, I find comfort in it.

But indifference to truth and honor and the rule of law has a way of catching up with a country.

Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted.

Aria Aber’s debut about an Afghan German party girl in Berlin shows that there are plenty of ways to tell an outsider’s story.

America’s allies and enemies watched as Trump’s pick for defense secretary failed to quell concerns about his character and qualifications.

At his confirmation hearing, the defense-secretary nominee looked like a man who understood that the fix was in.

“Almost everything you can do to avoid the worst outcomes must take place long before that first spark.”