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WhatsApp IN 2016 JACK LEW, America’s then treasury secretary, reflected on how his country had, over decades, “refined our capacity to apply sanctions effectively”. But he also gave a warning: overuse “could undermine our leadership position within the global economy, and the effectiveness of our sanctions themselves”. If the message was “proceed with caution”, it was lost on Donald Trump, who became president soon after. The screw was turned against China, Iran, Russia, Venezuela...

As a 25-year-old single father, with a lot of life and energy and a 3-year-old son being left behind, he marched off to war at the call of his country. He would serve less than five months before succumbing to fever in the heat and swamps of a mosquito-infested part of Louisiana known as Carrollton. He died fighting to save the Union from the insurrectionists who formed the Confederacy. Sadly, he lies today, with the exception of a small American flag, almost forgotten by the country he fought ...