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This was another busy week in global politics and I'm going to highlight some of the best tweets in my Twitter feed. Before starting, however, I will acknowledge that this post is late. I believe my excuse is pretty good as it involves lots of late night baseball. I grew up in Kansas rooting for...
The Strange Death of Liberal Zionism
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A Strategy of Appeasement: Winning the Revise and Resubmit
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“and Elinor?”: when winning a Nobel Prize isn’t enough…
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