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Religion & Other Curiosities
Did the Pope Have a Girlfriend?

Two recent news stories point to a possible way the Catholic Church might solve the problem of too few priests.

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How the West Misjudged Russia Part 9
Is the Time of the Russlandversteher Over?

Whether it likes it or not, Germany will play a key role in shaping the Western response to the Global Illiberalism.

2016
The Party of Lincoln

If the Republican Party accepts Trump, it will lose its soul.

2016 And Beyond
Unraveling America the Great

The radical conservative challenge to the progressive foundations of Pax Americana.

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Germany's Super Sunday
A Weakening Center

Both parties in Germany’s ruling coalition have failed to attend to the concerns of their base, and have thus allowed competitors to capture the allegiance of their traditional voters.

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Migration and Its Discontents
Merkel’s Twilight Begins

There is one enduring lesson from Angela Merkel’s big political defeat this weekend that bears repeating on both sides of the Atlantic: This is what happens when you don’t listen to your citizens.

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Election 2016
On the Trumpenproletariat

Trump is for real, like it or not, because the people who are attracted to him have real problems, and for the most part they are problems not of their own making.

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Japan & Russia
The Word in Tokyo: Crimea

Faced with its own long-standing territorial issues with Russia, Japan under Shinzo Abe is holding a strong line against the illegal annexation of Crimea.

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The Obama Doctrine
Points of Convergence

We still may not know everything, but thanks to Jeffrey Goldberg, we know a whole lot more than we did a few days ago about how the President thinks.

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European Disunion
An Avoidable Catastrophe

How Europe’s infectious institutionalization of irresponsibility is perpetuating the migrant crisis.

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