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The Unbearable Idiocy of Congress

by Daniel W. Drezner | Oct 3, 2016 | Opinion

One of Spoiler Alerts’ running themes in recent years has been the ways in which the executive branch has learned to bypass Congress on foreign policy, and how that has vested a disturbing amount of power into the office of the president. This has come through in...

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The Syrian-Americans Who Stood Up to Iran (When Obama Wouldn’t)

by Eli Lake | Sep 30, 2016 | Opinion

President Barack Obama and his top advisers go out of their way not to offend Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, particularly since he agreed to the nuclear deal in 2015. Last week at the U.N. General Assembly, Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry did not call out...

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Opinion: Iranian Trusteeship with Israel’s Blessings

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Sep 29, 2016 | Opinion

In July last year, I wrote an article entitled “How Will Our Region Look Come November 2016?” on this page. Of course what I meant then was the end of Barack Obama’s second term in the White House. In that article I pointed to how Washington made ISIS a pivotal...

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Opinion: The Week That May Change History

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 24, 2016 | Opinion

The special relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia that spans more than seventy years now faces a difficult test after a draft bill allowing the families of those killed in the September 11 attacks to sue the Saudi Arabian government and its...

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Opinion: US Election – the Unloved Known and the Feared Unknown

by Amir Taheri | Sep 23, 2016 | Opinion

To Trump, or not to Trump? As the US presidential election day draws closer, more and more Americans are pondering the question. Though it might look like a mere word play at first sight, the question isn’t altogether without pertinence. A vote for Donald Trump, the...