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Thursday, August 27, was the first day of the new normal, but it didn’t yet feel normal to any of us in Kyiv.

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The Best Colleges for Rural America reveal how some of higher ed’s biggest returns are happening in the country’s most remote corners.

Francis Fukuyama at The World in 2017 Gala Dinner in Athens, Greece, in January, 2017. Credit: Associated Press In the summer of 1989, I became an assistant editor at The National Interest, a small ...