Main story: Israel. Briefs: US, Kenya.

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Israel

Foreign Policy editorial (quoted)

Haaretz editorial (mentioned - great read!)

Washington Post article

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Name credit for this episode: Jane Zhang

Main story: France. Updates: North Korea and Kenya.

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Lone Wolves

NYT article from 1998 on rightwing lone wolves (mentioned)

The Guardian article on the lone wolf myth (quoted)

Brookings article on lone wolves

Washington Institute podcast with terrorist experts on lone wolves

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Kenya

System ya Majambazi music video (mentioned)

Another Kenyan anti-corruption music video just for fun (translated lyrics)

Brookings article on Kenya election

Good African Arguments opinion piece on what's wrong in Kenya

NYT article on Kenya election, updated late last night

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India / China

YouTube video of the tussle

Lowy Institute article about four scenarios (mentioned)

Thorough Diplomat article about the situation

The Wire opinion piece (mentioned)

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Sanctions

Council on Foreign Relations: Sanctions primer

North Korea

Bloomberg article on NK sanctions

My podcast on NK

Russia

Newsweek article on Russia sanctions, and why Europe's pissed

Iran

My podcast on Iran

Venezuela

BBC article on Venezuela sanctions

My podcast on Iran (which is also about Venezuela)

My other podcast on Venezuela

I'm really leaning on the "ish" part of 5ish minutes...

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Yemen

Here's the Rolling Stone article I mentioned. It is really, really good. (mentioned)

The Council on Foreign Relations has a long, in depth summary of the Yemen crisis.

Brookings high-up article on Iran, Yemen, and US options (mentioned)

Rwanda

Read these! Great reads for your weekend.

NY Times article from 2013 about a long interview with President Kagame

Washington Post article from last week: Throw the bums out, African edition

Would love your thoughts on the "sound smart" segment!

Queen Elizabeth II

The royal cocktail routine

Just for fun... a reporter spent a day drinking like Winston Churchill

Mexico

The situation from Washington Post

Early report from Citizen Lab at University of Toronto

Foreign Affairs article on Mexico & PRI backsliding (from 2016)

NYT article from 2000 on the breakthrough of democracy in Mexico

Bitcoin

YouTube video explaining Bitcoin more smoothly than I can

Wired article with more detail on the currency split

North Korea

If you really want to understand the US's options, read this article from the Atlantic!

This article from the BBC is also good (and shorter).

Here's a podcast interview with the Atlantic article writer.

Future of democracy

Article 1 is by the Chancellor of Oxford, and it's quick.

Article 2 is from the Global Public Policy Institute.

Venezuela

NYT article

Reuters article

Independent article (source for stats on weight loss)

Russia

Atlantic article (mentioned)

New Yorker article (mentioned)