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Your weekly roundup from Washington, D.C.

Bogus emergencies have become the norm—and not just on trade.

Economic reality will always beat out political ambition.

The Greenland episode is a historic strategic debacle.

The decision to make already vetted refugees reinterview to stay here won’t make us safer.

The New World’s hotels were a laboratory for how a young country ought to behave.

The rules-based international order relied on the U.S. to lead the way without acting in naked self-interest.