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Elections

Mourning in America

by James Marcus,

A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side, to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and…

Front Runner

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Marine Le Pen’s campaign to make France great again

The Counterparty

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Can Bosnia escape the stranglehold of ethnic politics?

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by Lincoln Agnew,

Bombast Bursting in Air

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The story, so far, of the 2016 election

Gangs of Karachi

by Matthieu Aikins,

Meet the mobsters who run the show in one of the world’s deadliest cities

The Trouble with Israel

by Bernard Avishai,

Netanyahu takes the country to the brink

The Ghost Polls of Afghanistan

by Matthieu Aikins, Anand Gopal,

Election Day in Afghanistan’s hinterlands

A Day of Blue Fingers

by Mujib Mashal,

Election Day in Afghanistan’s capital

Push Poll

by Mujib Mashal,

Registering to vote in Kabul

Dissolve Congress

by Jean-Philippe Immarigeon,

A cure for constitutional crisis