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It Starts in School
A Reform Agenda For Egypt

How President Sisi’s Al Azhar Speech from earlier this year can serve as an opening for real reform.

A New German Attitude Toward Defense?
On Defense, Germany Grows Up

New defense budget, public opinion polls show shift in debate.

Don't Even Try It
Obama’s Cyber-Deterrence Gambit

President Obama has signed an important new executive order that will allow the Treasury to wage economic warfare in retaliation for cyber attacks.

Pipeline Politics
Keystone Poisoning US-Canada Relations

Canada is America’s biggest trading partner. Why isn’t that figuring in the Keystone debate?

Church and State
The Money Factor in the Catholic Communion Battle

For the German Catholic church, there’s more at stake in the debate over communion for the remarried than theology. There’s also money.

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Political Decay
Real Putinism

The Russian state as it is today is more akin to the world as it was in the beginning: without form, and void.

Religious Freedom Rifts
Indiana and Arkansas Backpedal on RFRA

Indiana and Arkansas governors are poised to backtrack on religious freedom legislation in their states. Things might only get uglier from here.

Who Needs 'Em?
Shale Slakes American Thirst for OPEC Oil

U.S. oil imports from OPEC just hit a 28 year low, thanks to—you guessed it—fracking.

A Nuclear Game of Thrones
Japan and India vs. China and Pakistan

Japan moves towards providing subs to New Delhi and China gets ready to provide Islamabad with eight more subs of its own.

2016
Scott Walker’s March Through the Academy

Wisconsin’s universities are starting to cut down their workforces in response to Scott Walker’s budget cuts.

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