Politics

List of Politics articles

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  Egypt Scores Dead Last on Schools — And Egyptians Couldn’t Care Less

  Transitions

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  Mohamed El Dahshan

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  Tales of the shutdown (V): The military’s support of the GOP is shutting down, too

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Can Anybody Run This Country?

  Stephen M. Walt

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  Stephen M. Walt

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  We Are Cancelling the Financial Apocalypse!! As for Other Apocalypses….

  Daniel W. Drezner

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  Daniel W. Drezner

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  3 Things to Consider When Picking the Next Religious Freedom Ambassador

  Shadow Government 2009-2017

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  Will Inboden

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  It Was Nice While It Lasted

  Reflections on the end of America.

  By Other Means

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  Rosa Brooks

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  At Sea

  Smugglers, shipwrecks, and the harrowing, tragic journey of Syrian refugees trying to get to Sweden.

  Dispatch

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  Sophia Jones

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  Forecasting Egypt’s presidential race

  The Middle East Channel

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  H.A. Hellyer

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  How the NSA Scandal Is Roiling the Heritage Foundation

  The Cable

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  Shane Harris

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  The Empire Shuts Down

  Helpful hints on what to do when The Force gets furloughed.

  Feature

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  Michael Peck

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  Six facts about Col. Truman Smith that should interest all Best Defense readers

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  The NSA’s New Code Breakers

  America's using front companies, break-in artists, and hacktivists to spy on everyone -- and only North Korea seems able to resist.

  Report

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  Matthew M. Aid

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  40 Percent of Afghans Don’t Know Who They’ll Vote for in the Next Presidential Election

  Passport

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  J. Dana Stuster

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  Memories of war: Watching ‘Tom and Jerry’ with a bunch of Iraqi soldiers — and hey, is that cartoon secretly isolationist?

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Tales of the shutdown (IV): Who wants to work for a dysfunctional employer?

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks