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Trump, Iran and the Specter of Iraq: ‘We Bought All the Happy Talk’

President Trump is pondering swift military action in Iran. There were similar expectations that the war in Iraq would be quick and triumphant.

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President George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, in the Oval Office in March 2003.

In Trump’s Washington, ‘You Don’t Leave Home Without Your Lawyer’

There’s a lot of work for lawyers in the nation’s capital these days: Over 400 lawsuits have been filed against President Trump’s administration since the start of his second term.

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Most of the lawsuits that have been filed against President Trump’s administration since the start of his second term are being fought in the nation’s capital.
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