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Candid Discussions: Eric Margolis on the End of NATO Mission in Afghanistan

Candid Discussions: Eric Margolis on the End of NATO Mission in Afghanistan

Eric Margolis is an American-born award-winning and internationally syndicated columnist. With three decades of reporting from the world’s hotspots in the Middle East, Southwest and Central Asia, Mr. Margolis is considered a veteran of many conflicts. His articles have appeared in major Western and Asian newspapers. Mr. Margolis is also a regular contributor to major […]

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The FPA’s Must Reads (April 25 – May 2)

The FPA’s Must Reads (April 25 – May 2)

Our favorite long reads, blogs, and podcast from around the web this week.

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The FPA’s Must Reads (April 19 – April 25)

The FPA’s Must Reads (April 19 – April 25)

Our five favorite long reads and blog posts from the past week.

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Does the Shoe Still Fit? U.S.-Russia Relations

Does the Shoe Still Fit? U.S.-Russia Relations

Over the weekend, the New York Times published an article titled “In Cold War Echo, Obama Strategy Writes Off Putin.” It caught my eye because it used the catchphrase – Cold War – that politicians as policymakers, journalists as conveyers and we as an audience have grown familiar with. Literary devices go a long way […]

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The FPA’s Must Reads (April 12 – April 18)

The FPA’s Must Reads (April 12 – April 18)

Our five favorite long reads and blog posts from the past week.

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The FPA’s Must Reads (April 5 – April 11)

The FPA’s Must Reads (April 5 – April 11)

What Happened to Canada? n+1 By Marianne Lenabat Marianne Lenabat discusses the dramatic political reorientation that has taken place in recent years in Canada. As Canada’s left parties decline, its renown social services may begin to decline, and populist politics will set in. Year of the Pigskin: My hilarious, heartbreaking, triumphant season with the American […]

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The FPA’s Must Reads (March 22 – March 28)

The FPA’s Must Reads (March 22 – March 28)

Check out our five favorite long reads and blog posts from the past week.

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The FPA’s Must Reads (March 1 – March 7)

The FPA’s Must Reads (March 1 – March 7)

Need some reading for the weekend? Check out our editorial staff’s favorite five long reads and blog posts.

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The Snowden Conversation We Aren’t Having

The Snowden Conversation We Aren’t Having

In the first few months after Snowden’s leaks first exploded onto headlines, the public, and the media, struggled to fathom how private individuals figured into this story, and how close the U.S. had come to that “Orwellian state” Edward Snowden warned us of. If Google Trends are any indication, the story reached a peak in […]

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The FPA’s Must Reads (February 15 – February 21)

The FPA’s Must Reads (February 15 – February 21)

Our favorite long reads and blog posts from the past week.

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The FPA’s must reads (February 7 – February 14)

The FPA’s must reads (February 7 – February 14)

Our favorite long reads and blog posts from the past week.

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Tunisia Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Tunisia Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

This past week, radical Islam reared its ugly head again, this time in a seaside suburb of Tunis.  On Monday afternoon, the National Guard was called in to investigate a reported terrorist hideout in the Raoued suburb of Tunis.  The 24-hour standoff that ensued resulted in the death of seven militants and one police officer, […]

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The FPA’s Must Reads (January 18 – January 24)

The FPA’s Must Reads (January 18 – January 24)

This is Danny Pearl’s Final Story The Washingtonian By Asra Q. Nomani In 2002, Asra Nomani’s close friend and colleague Danny Pearl was kidnapped and brutally murdered at the hands of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks. In this deeply moving piece, Nomani describes her encounter with her friend’s murderer at Guantanamo Bay in 2012 […]

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The Indian Diplomat and Her Domestic: Beyond the Diplomatic Snafu

The Indian Diplomat and Her Domestic:  Beyond the Diplomatic Snafu

The snafu over Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade’s employment of household servant Sangeeta Richard has subsided.  But the incident raises a strategic issue, which goes beyond the question of whether the U.S.  treats India, in the words of the Economist, like a domestic servant.  There is a tension between developed American freedom and the views of freedom that […]

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The War Bill and the Doomsday Clock

The War Bill and the Doomsday Clock

Hugh Gusterson is a professor of anthropology and sociology at George Mason University who’s also a columnist for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He recently wrote that efforts by the Obama Administration to reach a deal with the Rouhani Administration in Iran and bring the Iranian nuclear crisis closer to a closure are met […]

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