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April 28, 2017

Doubts About U.S. Assistance to Egypt

Over the last forty years the United States has given Egypt tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance. The aid process has been on automatic pilot, with the United States delive…

October 16, 2008

Financial Markets
International Implications of the Financial Crisis

Listen to Timothy D. Adams, managing director of the Lindsey Group, and Simon Johnson, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, discuss the implications of the financial c…

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November 21, 2013

Iran
Friedman: There He Goes Again

Here’s an interesting quote: Never have I seen Israel and America’s core Arab allies working more in concert to stymie a major foreign policy initiative of a sitting U.S. president, and never have I…

March 6, 2012

Iran
The President Degrades the Debate on Iran

At his news conference today President Obama was asked about the debate over Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The context, of course, is the AIPAC Policy Conference at which he and a number of other A…

May 24, 2013

Egypt
Weekend Reading: "Egypt’s Dystopia," Takbir, and Revolutionary Art

Robert Johnson of Business Insider discusses Cairo’s deteriorating conditions, with a slideshow of pictures and captions highlighting the city’s biggest problems under Muslim Brotherhood rule. Nerva…

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