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By Erica Chenoweth When this blog was just a couple of months old, we experimented with a series…
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By Danny Hirschel-Burns In a wide-ranging essay in the London Review of Books, Owen Bennett looks out at ISIS’…
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By Taylor Marvin Happy Fourth of July, to readers who celebrate it. The German military’s training mission in Mali,…
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By Taylor Marvin As the downing of a Ukrainian military helicopter by pro-Russian separatists reminds the world of the ongoing…
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By Taylor Marvin Fighters from the ISIS jihadi organization have seized most of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, expanding the…
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By Taylor Marvin Continuing the conversation on how the wars in Iraq and Syria are weakening the borders of the Middle…
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By Taylor Marvin In Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city that is Boko Haram’s “hometown,” unemployment and fear feed instability among…
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By Taylor Marvin Against the background of a weekend “vote” for independence in eastern Ukraine and calls for annexation by…
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By Taylor Marvin On the mass kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by the insurgent group Boko Haram, a crime that…
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By Taylor Marvin In Syria, a “lost generation” of children left dead, scarred, or uneducated by a war many…