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Politics
National security
To brief, or not to brief
Published Aug 2, 2016
Former acting CIA director, SAIS faculty member discusses importance of briefing presidential candidates / NPR
Author Jeffrey Garten
The Count
Published Spring 2016
Jeffrey Garten is a financier, academic, and author—and yes, he's married to the Barefoot Contessa / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Politics
Why 2016 is different
Published March 11, 2016
Political pundit Ezra Klein talks Trump and the 'crazy goat rodeo' that is the presidential election
Commentary
Profitable politics
Published Jan 4, 2016
How political consultants cash in big time from the campaign finance system / The New York Times
Health care spending
Obamacare chilling effect?
Published Sept 21, 2015
Affordable Care Act saps enthusiasm for increased government health care spending, study suggests
Foreign relations
Cardin talks Iran nuclear deal
Published Sept 1, 2015
Contentious agreement set for up-or-down vote in Congress this month
What they know is wrong
Published Spring 2015
The forthcoming book "What the Government Thinks of the People" addresses disparities between the ruling and the ruled / Johns Hopkins Magazine
When rulers can't understand the ruled
Published Sept 15, 2014
JHU study finds significant gap in demographics, experience, partisanship between Washingtonians and the Americans they govern
Intellectual history
Deliberate alienation
Published Spring 2014
Graduate student Omid Mehrgan's Intersession course tackles the intellectual history of Iran. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Dean of Middle Eastern affairs
Published Spring 2014
Vali Nasr has built his career on explaining the inexplicable. / Johns Hopkins Magazine