Essays
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Failing the Grade
California’s Self-Inflicted Educational Crisis

It isn’t hard to explain why the Golden State has a public school teacher shortage, and it should be just as easy to fix the problem.

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21st century troubles
Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them

As antibiotics become increasingly ineffective, we must find other ways to prevent these disasters.

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2017 and Beyond
Dodging and Hedging in Southeast Asia

Those worried about Trump’s Southeast Asia policy should study how the region really works.

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Religion and Modernity
A Jewish Take on Pluralism

In an honest dialogue between religions, does one sometimes have to say “no”?

brave new world
Some Thoughts on the Trump News Bombshell

This event is deeply damaging to the country and its institutions in the short run. Don’t for a second think that Putin is unhappy by this latest turn of events.

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Smart Policing
How Israel Catches Lone Wolves

The successful campaign to curb the Palestinian “Haba” relies on technology, smart policing, and cooperation with the Palestinian Authority.

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The Writing on the Wall
It’s the Corruption, Stupid

How Westerners misunderstand the Eurasian drift of former Soviet republics like Moldova.

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World Order
America’s International Nationalism

American nationalism has been unlike the garden variety from the start, and it has shaped a much better world over the past two centuries or so. Will it stay that way under a Trump presidency?

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Yule Blog
The Light at the End of the Yule Blog

Christmas is important to Christians because from their point of view the Baby Jesus is the meaning of Christmas, and the meaning of Christmas is the meaning of life.

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Net Assessment
A Gulf in the Gulf?

Even if the next U.S. administration downsizes our military presence in the Middle East, it must work more effectively with our Arab Gulf partners to counter Iran’s growing asymmetric threat.

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