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Hillary vs. Donald
Choosing Wisely

On whom will we bestow the grand title of the lesser evil?

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Humanity
Forms of Hatred

Or, how to understand the Age of Trump.

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Geopolitics
Russia and Turkey: Read the Fine Print

Moscow is getting closer to a gas pipeline deal with Ankara, but it’s not the geopolitical triumph some think.

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Community Organizing
Clinton’s Alinsky Problem—and Ours

Saul Alinsky wasn’t a Marxist, and Hillary Clinton wasn’t his acolyte—though you wouldn’t know if from today’s political discourse.

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Foreign Policy
Grand Strategy in Three Words or Less

Volume One of the Pumphrett Papers.

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Europe and Islam
The Facts and Figures on French Muslims

A think tank report sheds new light on how Islam is practiced (and not practiced) in France.

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Syria
Russian Perfidy at the UN

The Obama Administration and its Western allies are angry at Russia’s two-faced dealings on Syria, but they still may not learn their lesson.

Syrian Civil War
Grounding Assad

A no-fly zone in Syria, though difficult to arrange, could prove pivotal in ending the ongoing civil war.

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UN and Israel
Sunny Side Up

At the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu took a very unusual attitude, for him: optimism.

Illiberality
Déclassé: Nothing New Under the Sun

Can we learn anything from past rounds of technological disruption and mass downward socio-economic mobility?

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