Articles

Pensioners and Populism

2016-10-29

The rise of protectionism and anti-immigrant sentiment in Britain, America, and Europe is widely believed to reflect stagnant incomes, widening inequality, structural unemployment, and even excessive monetary easing

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Iraqi Christians, Protecting An Ancient Monastery, Watch Battle Against ISIS With Hope

2016-10-27

One Christian woman fled Mosul after ISIS gave her a choice: convert or die

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Last days of the caliphate, Islamic State’s messianic apocalypse is postponed

2016-10-27

But the defeat of the jihadist group in the real world might revive realism among Sunnis

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Education Innovation in the Middle East

2016-10-27

We now confront an education crisis that threatens to leave a lost generation of young people without any hope for a better future

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Populism on the March

2016-10-23

Why the West Is in Trouble

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Managing Compromise in the Middle East

2016-10-23

The international community undoubtedly has a central role to play in supporting social and economic reform in the middle east

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Deaths at a Yemen funeral

2016-10-18

The carnage in Yemen is at last attracting the world’s attention

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Is Populism Being Trumped?

2016-10-18

The reactionary parochialism embraced by many voters in recent years has shaken political establishments and roiled markets. They needed it, but can policymakers build on recent signs of buyers’ remorse?

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Education Needs Social Enterprise

2016-10-18

The Platform for Education in Emergencies Response will connect college-ready Syrian refugees with refugee-ready colleges

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Leading the Middle East Into the Future

2016-10-14

To ensure the future prosperity of the Middle East, its governments and citizens must ask themselves if new technologies are being designed and adapted to meet real social needs

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The Skills Delusion

2016-10-14

Modern economies would not be possible without widespread literacy and numeracy

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Syria’s civil war, The agony of Aleppo

2016-10-06

America’s ceasefire deal with Russia never stood a chance

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Facing up to income inequality

2016-10-04

The jump in household income merely helps to make up for lost ground

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Is a bankrupt Saudi Arabia a good thing?

2016-10-02

This is what the Saudis have done with Wahhabism. The oil money has enabled them to spread this fanatical, destructive form of Islam all over the Muslim world and among Muslims in the west

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ISIS win-win propaganda

2016-10-02

A showdown on ground so symbolic to Islamists might actually play in favor of those opposed to the vision espoused by radical Islamists

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Confronting the Populists

2016-09-29

In the political world, the answer is quite a lot. On the left and right – few mainstream leaders are having such a good year

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The Downfall of ISIS

2016-09-28

Why Foreign Fighters Have Become a Liability

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The Perils of a Post-ISIS Iraq

2016-09-28

In Kirkuk, the extremist group's defeat risks rekindling old ethnic and religious conflicts unless cooler heads prevail

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Helicopter Money Is in the Air

2016-09-23

GDP has hardly grown in the last four years, and GDP per capita is still less than it was in 2007

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Globalization for Everyone

2016-09-20

Every aspect of globalization – free trade, free movement of capital, and international migration – is under attack

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Divorce in Iraq, Breaking up in Baghdad

2016-09-20

A rise in divorces is blamed on Islamism, poverty and Turkish soap operas

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Obama’s Chance for Middle East Peace

2016-09-18

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the lynchpin issue that will determine whether the region’s future will be one of peace and prosperity

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Education and the Invisible Child

2016-09-18

Today’s invisible victims are refugee children holed up in tents, shacks, and hovels who will never enjoy a first day at school

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