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View from Away: After toppling Assad, Syrians face a new day — and remind the world’s democracies of freedoms often taken for granted

Americans love to talk about liberty. But if we’re completely honest with ourselves, the bulk of our conversations about individual freedom, or more precisely, the loss of it, are abstract — most of us, thankfully, have known nothing else but unfettered self-determination. We may be frustrated with government policies as varied as pandemic-era restrictions on […]