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In a recent synergistic extravaganza, the folks at Slate and one of their related publications Foreign Policy held an exhaustive list-making drill on international relations in film. It started with Stephen M. Walt’s list of 10 (including Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove and – gasp – Independence Day), followed by Daniel W. Drezner’s top 8 rebuttal (which [...]

As we overdose on inauguration coverage today and tomorrow, we’ll be seeing so many American flags that by Wednesday we’ll think every blank surface is covered in stars and stripes. To complement the plethora of flags in today’s news coverage, we’ve been seeing a lot of a fictional flag being waved lately. All the commercials [...]