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08/01/2016 - 15:17

Dutch disease was partly to blame. Russia could not escape the negative side effects of a booming natural resource sector despite enacting... →

04/01/2016 - 13:23

Taking C.P.R. Outside the Hospital A few months ago, after a swim in the pool at my health club, I walked past the exercise area and saw a... →

30/12/2015 - 15:11

The geopolitical danger arises from Putin’s growing reliance on military action abroad – in Ukraine and now in Syria – to maintain his... →

21/12/2015 - 15:16

At the end of that year, shortly after the law went into effect, the (now defunct) newspaper Herut reported that “120 individuals suspected... →

16/12/2015 - 14:54

A lot has changed since the original Star Wars film in 1977; even since the last release in 2005. So when The Force Awakens presents the... →

11/12/2015 - 16:57

After nearly 300 years of persecuting followers of Jesus, the Roman Empire under Constantine, adopted Christianity as its official religion... →

04/12/2015 - 16:43

Even after the 1977 Likud revolution — in which Begin wrested power from Labor by harnessing Mizrahi exclusion, anger at the security... →

28/11/2015 - 14:54

A PROXY WAR AND THE WIDER STRUGGLE In Syria, Putin professes that he wants to fight ISIS, but this is mere posturing. Even with new... →

22/11/2015 - 13:49

There is no other language, for example, that is close enough to English that we can get about half of what people are saying without... →

17/11/2015 - 19:43

What does IS want? In June 2014, the group formally declared the establishment of a "caliphate" - a state governed in accordance with... →

09/11/2015 - 14:49

In “The Invention of the Jewish People” (published in English in 2010), Sand informed us that aside from himself, no one – or at least no... →

04/11/2015 - 14:27

This didn’t happen. In fact, the country is now regressing to the level it was at in the late 1990s—and it risks remaining there for... →

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