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Better guacamole? How avocado import rules helped cut Mexico’s water pollution – it holds lessons for future US trade deals

Pressure from trade agreements can clean up sources of environmental harm, leading to cleaner rivers in the case of Mexico’s much-loved avocados.

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The war in Iran – again – points to the strategic shortcomings of assassination as policy of foreign affairs

Targeted killings can disrupt an adversary, but they rarely lead to collapse — especially when the target is a nation-state like Iran.