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Kurds Rising
Erdogan’s Approaching Downfall—and a Kurdish Revolution

Turkey must find a way to manage what amounts to a Kurdish revolution. Will it attempt to meet the Kurds halfway, or take a nationalist turn?

Reviews
Character Acting

David Brooks’s latest book highlights a critical theme, but ends up lamenting one form of shallowness by dint of another.

Reviews
Paper Machinations

The history of money is more than meets the eye: We shape it and then it shapes us.

Retroview
The Centralization Paradox

Martha Derthick understood that an over-centralized Federal system can coexist with a relatively weak Executive, concocting a formula for American political dysfunction.

Defeating ISIS
Go Local

Feckless, strategy-less bombing campaigns cannot defeat the Islamic State. We need an approach that recognizes and engages local social realities.

Take the Meds
A Doctor in the House

Distributed systems of personalized medicine will deliver higher-quality care at lower cost. Home visits will be a major part of the mix.

Homo Americanus
The Waverly Vet

A dozen Underground Railroad travelers returned south from their refuge in Pennsylvania to fight for the Union. George Keys was one of the few to survive the ordeal.

Beware of Greeks Bearing Debts
Creditors to Greece: We. Will. Not. Blink.

Greece’s creditors warn they’ve reached the end of the line. But are the creditors credible?

The Dem Divide
Blue Civil War, Gotham Edition

New York’s fight over stricter rent control regulations is a snapshot of a nationwide trend: states moving right as cities lean left.

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The Francis Era
A Poor Church for the Poor?

The left likes to look for the “root causes of poverty”. A better project would be looking for “the root causes of wealth”. It would be helpful if Catholic social teaching supported this project.

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