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Kanayo F. Nwanze
Harnessing the Remittance Boom
ROME – For more than a decade, Asia’s economies have been on the move – and so have its people. The scale of migration from rural to urban a…
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Liah Greenfeld
Nationalism, Madness, and Terrorism
BOSTON – If we want to understand what drove the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to terrorism, the answer …
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Erik Solheim
A New Deal for Fragile States
PARIS – Today, roughly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states. Despite vast sums of money spent…
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Randall Morck
Oily Dirt
EDMONTON – Calm discussion of the environment nowadays is about as plausible as reasoned dialogue on witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. C…
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Christopher Lane
The Distortion of Grief
CHICAGO – How long does it take to mourn the death of a loved one? The question is peculiar, even mildly offensive. Recovery from bereavemen…
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Bernard Haykel
Syria’s Sectarian Stalemate
PRINCETON – What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a p…
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Fiorello Provera
The Endangered Arab Christian
BRUSSELS – The recent abductions of Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim and his Greek Orthodox counterpart, Paul Yazigi, reflect not …
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Tamara Wittes, Tamara Wittes
The Egypt-Israel Peace Test
WASHINGTON, DC – The rocket strikes that a militant Islamist group recently fired from the Egyptian Sinai into the Israeli city of Eilat ser…
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Aryeh Neier
Less of an Ass
PARIS – “If the law supposes that,” says Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist, “the law is a ass – a idiot.” For decades, Britain’s libel laws had bee…
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Adeel Malik, Bassem Awadallah
An Arab Marshall Plan
OXFORD – The wave of revolts that swept across the Arab world two years ago were fueled by demands for freedom, bread, and social justice. B…
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