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Africa

August 27 - Assad's Cynical Attempt to Ally with the U.S.; The Economics of Ebola Treatment; The Record Melting of the World's Largest Ice Sheets

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August 18 - The Need for a Credible Inquiry and Justice in Ferguson, Missouri; There is a "There" There in the Indictment of Rick Perry; The Fate of the African Elephant Reaches a Tipping Point

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August 5 - Panic Over Ebola Generated by Ignoramuses Like Donald Trump; An American General Killed at Afghanistan's Equivalent of West Point; Africa's Corrupt and Entrenched Leaders at the Africa Summit

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August 4 - More Gains by I.S. Fighters in Iraq; 50 African Heads of State Meet for the First Africa Summit in the U.S.; Is Ukraine About to Go Nuclear Again?

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May 14 - Boko Haram's Backers and Nigeria's Disgruntled Military; Europe's "Right to be Left Along" as Internet Censorship; The UN Mediator Quits as Syria's Murderous Stalemate Continues

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May 13 - Who is Secretly Backing Boko Haram?; Obama Determined to Jail James Risen; Chasing the American Dream As Our Fortunes Fade

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May 7 - Nigeria's Corrupt Elite Exposed; A Witness to the Massacres in South Sudan; The Brain's Amygdala and Conservative Politics

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May 6 - A New Report on the Clear and Present Danger of Climate Change; The Fault Line Between Islam and Christianity in Nigeria; The Dire Need for Diplomacy in Ukraine

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May 4 - U.S. Intelligence's Failing to Detect Putin's Stealth Invasion of Ukraine; Mixed Signals From Polls on Obama's Foreign Policy; International Outrage Grows Over the Kidnapping of Nigerian Schoolgirls

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April 27 - Putin's Hidden Fortune; The 20th Anniversary of the End of Apartheid - South Africa's Freedom Day; The Rise of Rand Paul and Libertarian Activism on American Campuses

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