For many of us who are normally eager to share our words, this is a time of wordlessness. It’s hard to separate all the feelings — the elation over the release of three young women hostages to Israel after 471 days in captivity,

Donald Trump jumped to claim credit for brokering the ceasefire moments after it was announced on Wednesday, despite the fact that he was not in office for the duration of the conflict. But his instinct may not be far off: A diplomat briefed on the negotiations credited their sudden progress to the incoming forty-seventh president, reported

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