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The short-lived Assad dynasty has a complex history that ironically came to power by participating in a series of coups that ultimately established the family’s leadership in 1971. Bashar’s father, Hafez, was a key player in the 1963 Syrian Coup d’Etat that brought...
Someone explain how coercive centralized bureaucratic control of medical decision-making and the purse can beat the decentralized free market with its undistorted price system. The government has many things besides medical care it wants to spend tax money on, and...
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s rule is an opportunity for the United States to overhaul its bankrupt Syria policy. The U.S. should have abandoned this policy years earlier, but now there are no longer any pretexts for continuing the collective punishment of the...
