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Iraq and Ruin
The Once and Future Mosul

The city may soon be freed from the Islamic State, but it won’t be easy to govern afterward. Foreigners—and even Iraqis—had better study its complexities.

Election 2016
Clinton Signals Any Obama Middle East Parameters Won’t Matter

Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Democratic candidate tactfully signaled she is not interested in having her predecessor tie her hands.

Higher Ed Shake Up
Your Future Doctor Is Learning Medicine Online

Three lessons from the University of Vermont College of Medicine’s radical restructuring of its curriculum.

Obama's Syria Policy
Kerry Accepts the Unacceptable

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, let’s strengthen our partnership. That’s the spirit of the Obama Administration’s policy of dealing with Russia in Syria.

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Russia's Influence Game
Who’s Playing Whom?

A Bosnian referendum shows Russia’s influence in the Balkans—as well as its limits.

Crude Economics
Don’t Look Now, but the Global Oil Surplus Just Tripled

Will this push petrostates to act in Algiers next week?

Higher Education Watch
Fighting Anti-Semitism at CUNY

Militant anti-Israel ideology is a hallmark of the illiberal Left—and has been taking college campuses by storm in recent years.

WRM Elsewhere
Nationalism Is Not the Only Way

Read our own Walter Russell Mead in Mosaic, where he argues that neither “nationalist particularism” nor “cosmopolitan universalism” is “the answer to the human condition.”

Frack Baby Frack
Shale Is Hale in the American Northeast, Too

Natural gas is booming in the Appalachian basin.

Jihadism in Africa
Mali’s President at the UN: We’ve Still Got a Colossal Jihadist Problem

Here’s the thing about terrorists in Mali: we’ll hear nothing about them and nothing about them and then suddenly everything will be about them.

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