Articles

Angela Merkel’s Test of Faith

2016-12-07

Germany can either save Europe or refugees not both. To stem the rise of the far-right, the chancellor will be forced to make gut-wrenching decisions

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Muslims after the election, at a mosque in Trump country

2016-11-23

Kris Kobach has recently suggested a national registry for immigrants and visitors from Muslim countries

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Donald Trump’s Choices in the Middle East

2016-11-23

Trump is a businessman, not a statesman, he thinks in terms of immediate profits and losses

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DID RUSSIA INSTALL DONALD TRUMP AS THE NEXT U.S. PRESIDENT?

2016-11-12

Moscow helped ensure that the only candidate who will be friendly to Russia has gained office

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Can Donald Trump Be a Good President?

2016-11-09

Is it possible we were wrong about Trump’s governing prospects?

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The Islamic State Just Wants to Watch the World Burn

2016-10-30

As Iraqi forces bear down on Mosul, the jihadi group is setting oil wells ablaze, using civilians as human shields, and executing those who try to flee

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Masters of War in Syria and Iraq

2016-10-30

When the bloody conflict finally ends in Syria, there will be no victory parades, no moment of national catharsis

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How Inequality Found a Political Voice

2016-10-30

Political leaders often speak of growth patterns that unfairly distribute the benefits of growth; but then they do relatively little about it when they are in power

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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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