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Editor’s note: Buck O’Neil, who died Friday, was the star first baseman and manager of the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro baseball leagues, the first African-American coach in the major leagues, and a major voice in remembering and recounting the era of black baseball. Buck O’Neil, at age 94, has passed into the eternal…

The other night a retired general appeared on CNN describing how to “win” in Iraq. Quoting analyst Andrew Krepinevich, he called for the “oil stain strategy”: Don’t spread our troops out thinly over a large region, but rather concentrate and dominate strongly in one or two places (Baghdad being one of them), thus letting security…

North Korea’s nuclear test is a major blow to the international nonproliferation regime, the first time a country has withdrawn from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and tested nuclear weapons. This is a disaster that did not have to happen. It represents a colossal failure of U.S. foreign policy. When the Bush administration came into…

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