Author / Joe Lenoff
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WUPR Debrief – 2015 Israeli Elections
WUPR Debrief is a panel discussion and breakdown of local, national, or international news. Joe Lenoff is the host, and he is joined by a revolving panel of other WU students. This episode focuses on the 2015 Israeli parliamentary elections.
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Where Krauthammer Went Wrong: An Appeal to Nuance
In the past week, the U.S. Congress has made two unprecedented interventions into U.S. foreign policy. First, Speaker John Boehner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, arranged for PM Netanyahu to speak before the U.S. Congress on March 3, 2015 and argue his case against current negotiations…
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WUPR Debrief Episode 1
WUPR Debrief is a panel discussion and breakdown of local, national, or international news. Joe Lenoff is the host, and he is joined by a revolving panel of other WU students.
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Medical Marijuana is a Farce
BY JOE LENOFF On November 4, my home state of Florida voted on the legal permissibility of medical marijuana. It failed, but it is still significant that Florida voters went to the polls to decide whether the state would become the 24th in the country to approve medical marijuana. Medical marijuana is a nonsensical term…
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ISIL: Explained
BY JOE LENOFF I’ve heard them referred to as ISIL, ISIS, and IS. Which is it? ISIL is short for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. ISIS is short for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and IS is short for the Islamic State. The difference, of course, is in the words…
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Crises of Nationalism
BY JOE LENOFF In the aftermath of the First World War, the European states dismantled the Ottoman Empire and designed a system by which the Middle East would be carved into separate states ruled by people the Europeans themselves hand-picked. Although there were a series of agreements between the Europeans, such as the Sykes-Picot Agreement…
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Clinton’s Foreign Policy: Savvy, or Sullied?
BY JOE LENOFF Over his five years in office, President Obama’s foreign policy has gained a notorious reputation as Woodrow Wilson-esque idealism—a sort of intentional naivety used to shape the world as it should be, rather than grapple with what it is. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton is lauded as a foreign policy pragmatist,…
