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March 2, 2012

Defense and Security
Friday File: Americans Out of Egypt

Above the Fold. The six Americans charged with violating Egypt’s civil-society laws finally got to come home last night. The National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute p…

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

November 23, 2004

The budget deficit before all the bad stuff

Isn’t that what leaving any increase in deficit associated with partial privatization of social security off the books implies?Bush’s formula on the dollar in Santiago emphasized the need to control …

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

October 26, 2015

Red Team Reading List

In the course of researching and writing my book, Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy, over five years, I read (or skimmed) everything I could find about the subject—within the limits…

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Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

July 9, 2015

Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Whack-a-mole, Sugary Drinks, and Libya

Gitanjali M. Singh, et al., “Estimated Global, Regional, and National Disease Burdens Related to Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in 2010,” Circulation, June 29, 2015. Worldwide, the model estim…

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Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

August 27, 2012

China
China’s Food Safety Crisis: How Serious Is the Problem?

Last month in the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix Finals, China’s women’s volleyball team fell to countries that did not even qualify for the 2008 Olympics, where China won Bronze. The coach blamed his te…

An employee works at the production line of an edible oil company in Sanhe, Hebei April 12, 2011.
Blog Post by Yanzhong Huang Asia Unbound