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The Guardian: “Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace” 2018

October 15, 2017

The Guardian: “Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace” 2018

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The real explanation for the past decades of failed peace negotiations is not mistaken tactics or imperfect circumstances, but that no strat...

Ars Technica: “Finding North America’s lost medieval city” 2018

October 01, 2017

Ars Technica: “Finding North America’s lost medieval city” 2018

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My first find was a slab of red pottery that crumbled to dust in my fingers. “Don’t worry about that,” Baires assured me. “It’s just unfired...

The Wertzone: “How Judge Dredd predicted the future” 2018

The Wertzone: “How Judge Dredd predicted the future” 2018

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The “classic” Judge Dredd background is that presented between the 1982 storyline The Apocalypse War (which reduced the city from its eve...

Time: “Person of the Year Runner Up: Recep Tayyip Erdogan” 2018

February 28, 2017

Time: “Person of the Year Runner Up: Recep Tayyip Erdogan” 2018

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Instead of providing a model for democracy, Turkey’s leader represents a throwback: an elected autocrat, tolerated by the West for maintain...

The Atlantic: “The American Leader in the Islamic State” 2018

February 27, 2017

The Atlantic: “The American Leader in the Islamic State” 2018

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The Yahya Tim described to me was a sad figure, a sheep who had strayed into a wicked flock. Above all, he was easily manipulated. This, fo...

The New York Times: “How Stable are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs are flashing Red’” 2018

February 06, 2017

The New York Times: “How Stable are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs are flashing Red’” 2018

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Political scientists have a theory called “democratic consolidation”, which holds that once countries develop democratic institutions, a ro...

BBC Capital: “Native English speakers are the world’s worst communicators” 2018

February 04, 2017

BBC Capital: “Native English speakers are the world’s worst communicators” 2018

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The non-native speakers, it turns out, speak more purposefully and carefully, typical of someone speaking a second or third language. Anglo...

Financial Times: “Lunch with the FT: Bill Gates” 2018

January 30, 2017

Financial Times: “Lunch with the FT: Bill Gates” 2018

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I get just a hint of his politics, however, when we discuss the speed and energy with which China is developing and I suggest that some mi...

Miami Herald: “Former Cuban President Fidel Castro dead at age 90” 2018

January 07, 2017

Miami Herald: “Former Cuban President Fidel Castro dead at age 90” 2018

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“As you may well know,” Castro said during a 1993 speech, “my job is to talk.” His orations were legendary. Without a text, but with a crow...

The Guardian: “China’s memory manipulators” 2018

November 19, 2016

The Guardian: “China’s memory manipulators” 2018

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Observing China sometimes requires a lens like Nagel’s. Walking the streets of China’s cities, driving its country roads, and visiting its ...

The New York Review of Books: “Ur-Fascism” 2018

November 08, 2016

The New York Review of Books: “Ur-Fascism” 2018

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But in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fasci...

The Guardian: “Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire” 2018

November 06, 2016

The Guardian: “Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire” 2018

The Mau Mau uprising had long fascinated scholars. It was an armed rebellion launched by the Kikuyu, who had lost land during colonisation...

The Guardian: “The reluctant jihadi: how one recruit lost faith in Isis” 2018

November 05, 2016

The Guardian: “The reluctant jihadi: how one recruit lost faith in Isis” 2018

Abu Ali had heard about the Yazidi sex slaves, though he had never encountered any himself. The men called them “ sabaya ”. They were mostl...

The Atlantic: “The Obama Doctrine” 2018

October 07, 2016

The Atlantic: “The Obama Doctrine” 2018

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Obama has come to a number of dovetailing conclusions about the world, and about America’s role in it. The first is that the Middle East is...

Tech in Asia: “Why US tech companies struggle in China but thrive in India” 2018

September 08, 2016

Tech in Asia: “Why US tech companies struggle in China but thrive in India” 2018

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Some of the world’s most successful companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Uber – have turned their backs on the Middle Kingdom and its ...

The Guardian: “The conspiracy theorists who have taken over Poland” 2018

September 07, 2016

The Guardian: “The conspiracy theorists who have taken over Poland” 2018

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This circular reasoning helps to make sense of Jarosław’s success in building an electoral coalition around the notion of the układ . The i...

The New Yorker: “The Deep State” 2018

September 03, 2016

The New Yorker: “The Deep State” 2018

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When Erdoğan and his comrades in the A.K. Party came to power, there were widespread concerns that, as ardent Islamists, they were intent o...

Fusion: “With a single vote, England just screwed us all” 2018

Fusion: “With a single vote, England just screwed us all” 2018

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I’m sitting here looking at my burgundy-red British passport, with EUROPEAN UNION emblazoned in gold letters across the top. I’ve fastened ...

The Guardian: “The refugee who took on the British government” 2018

The Guardian: “The refugee who took on the British government” 2018

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Evaluations of PBS relied on figures supplied by the Ethiopian government; there were huge, unexamined risks of corruption in funnelling th...

The Guardian: “The struggle for Mali” 2018

The Guardian: “The struggle for Mali” 2018

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But there was a reason why the jihadists selected him as a judge. Daouda is a Salafist, a Saudi-trained scholar who had long preached again...