Author / Ari Spitzer
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Ted Cruz and His Fight for the Nomination
“The Obama economy is a disaster, Obamacare is a train wreck and the Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind—the whole world is on fire.” Ted Cruz’s climax was nigh as he roused the crowd with hellfire, brimstone and thinly-veiled references to interracial sodomy. Before Mr. Cruz could finish his description of the…
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For the Sake of Jingoism
BY ARI SPITZER Amidst photos friends had posted, and articles about the FIFA World Cup that populated my newsfeed, a headline appeared: “Search for Israeli Teenagers Ends in Tragedy.” Slowly but surely with each refresh, the headline and others like it pervaded my social networks. Three yeshiva students in Israel, Gilad Sha’ar, 16, Eyal Yifrah,…
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The Roots of the Obama Doctrine
BY ARI SPITZER Surrounding the civil war in Syria has been a dramatic display of political and diplomatic theatre between the United States and Russia, the highlight of which was President Obama’s improvisational maneuvering and the Russian response in reaction. When observed in isolation, the episode reveals a fundamental irony in American foreign policy: whereas…
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How Climate Change Affects Indian Political Stability
In July, The Economist published a piece describing the effects of climate change in India and discovered two prevailing trends: first, India is getting warmer, and second, the summer monsoons are coming later and later in the year. Time Magazine recently looked into the phenomenon and found that India’s energy supply and distribution problems may…
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A Cease-fire in Context
Last week, Israel and Gaza reached a new ceasefire deal. That sort of sentence has appeared in print too many times to mean anything of substance. But, for the sake of being optimistic, let’s say for a second that this deal is different, and that it is a genuine step towards a lasting peace. The…
