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It's the Economy
Does Israel’s Trade Follow Its Foreign Relations?

Despite speculation about a pivot toward China, Russia, and India, and away from the United States and Europe, the answer is: no. And Israel is the better for it.

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Religion and Modernity
The Canonization of Mother Teresa

For most religious people today modernity and religion relate to each other not as either/or but as both/and.

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Bioengineering
The Age of Designer Plagues

The growing ease of genetically modifying bacteria and viruses presages real trouble ahead.

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Middle East Strategy
With “Friends” Like Iran…

The United States must choose between embracing Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, or bolstering its alliance with a gradually reforming Saudi Arabia.

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Mahler's Ninth
Music That’s Everything

First loathing, then loving, the all-encompassing symphonies of Gustav Mahler.

Believe It or Not
A Swing and a Miss in Syria?

Shocker: the ceasefire deal brokered by the United States and Russia is starting to show some cracks.

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Public Health
The Soda Solution

When presented to consumers in the optimal light, taxes on sugary drinks can significantly reduce consumption and thereby obesity.

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2016 And Beyond
A Republic If You Can Keep It

Democratic illegitimacy in the United States and the rest of the world results more from political than economic discontent.

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New World Disorder
The Dangerous Idiocy of Global Leadership

The first obligation of leadership is to one’s own people. The international elite have forgotten that, and end up serving no one but themselves.

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Israel Infighting
A Bloody Summer

Two years after the Gaza war of 2014, the political fight over Netanyahu’s handling of it heats up—and the prospect of another war looms.

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