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List of Excerpt articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Metamorphosis of an Islamic State Warrior
Meet Abdelaziz Kuwan, a nice young man from Bahrain who went to Syria to fight Assad. Before long he was raping girls and beheading men.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Final Betrayal of Egypt’s Revolution
The democratic revolution in Tahrir Square awakened high hopes in Egyptians. Two years later, it ended in blood and tears.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watching Top Gun in Tehran
Life in 1980s Iran was unbearable. And then Masoud the video-man came to call.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 And the City Swallowed Them
A model, a murder, and the seamy underbelly of 2008 Shanghai.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Did Robert Capa Fake ‘Falling Soldier’?
The complicated history of the world's most famous war photograph.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Islamist Identity Crisis
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood became more illiberal after its first brush with power -- sparking an authoritarian reaction that makes a democratic future seem further away than ever.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Murder in the Kingdom
The unsolved killing of a photographer in Bahrain's forgotten Arab Spring.
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AFP/Getty Images How Zionist Extremism Became British Spies’ Biggest Enemy
In World War II's aftermath, MI5 turned to fight a new threat. It wasn't the Soviets. It was bombers from Jerusalem.
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Artyom Korotayev/Epsilon/Getty Images The Seduction of George W. Bush
How the president of good and evil bromanced Vladimir Putin. And how a warm friendship turned to ice.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How the Beirut Bombing Spawned the Modern Surveillance State
A 1983 terror attack caught the U.S. with its eyes closed. It swore to keep watching and watching and watching.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Confidence Trap
It's not just the United States. Democracies around the world are facing a crisis of faith.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Appetite for Destruction
Why feeding China's 1.3 billion people could leave the rest of the world hungry.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Great Escape
Some thoughts on the health and wealth of nations, and what needs to be done to help those left behind.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A User’s Guide to Democratic Transitions
A how-to guide for reformers around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China: Year Zero
1979 and the birth of an economic miracle.
