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| The Crack-up of Theocracy By Reuel Marc Gerecht Can Iran’s clerical regime survive? Economics and politics are, of course, always intertwined. Politics and God unavoidably intersect. And threaded around and through everything in Iran is an ever-evolving Islamic culture, which, if one follows the anxious writings of the supreme leader Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, is in trouble... |
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| Emmanuel for All Seasons By Dominic Green Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency last spring with promises to break the old political order and transform the French economy. These promises were not dissimilar from those of candidates of the extremes, Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the left and Marine Le Pen on the right. Meanwhile... |
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| Barnes: It’s a Long Time to November By Fred Barnes The optimism of Democrats about the midterm election is based on the assumption that political conditions won’t change between now and November 6. Indeed, some of them won’t. One thing sure not to change is history. There’s a longstanding rule... |
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| Unidentified Fiscal Objects By Jay Cost Last month, the New York Times reported what appeared to be a bombshell: The United States Department of Defense had squirreled away $22 million to fund the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. This “shadowy” program—run from “the Pentagon’s C Ring... |
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