Scroll down past News & Notes for a debate on the future of nation building by the United States. David Amaya offers his perspective in the left column, and David Iwinski comments from the right, in a preview of an upcoming, October 28 Braver Angels national debate on the issue. 

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Also in the left column …

•Our flash debate on the Pandora Papers released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. 

•Our flash debate on the controversy surrounding Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding his portrayal in the book Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. 

•Pundit-at-large Stephen Macaulay, “The Seriousness of China,” on the growing Cold War with the country.

•The California gubernatorial recall and the future of Trump’s GOP, by Jessica Gottlieb.

•Reader comment on the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate.

•Macaulay on the vaccine mandate.