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Max Fisher

Max Fisher

Former Vox Staff

    Latest articles by Max Fisher

    World Politics
    John Oliver actually succeeds in making Canadian politics pretty hilariousJohn Oliver actually succeeds in making Canadian politics pretty hilarious
    World Politics

    Canadians vote today in a national election.

    By Max Fisher
    World Politics
    This is the biggest surprise about America I’ve heard from foreign visitorsThis is the biggest surprise about America I’ve heard from foreign visitors
    World Politics

    “You Americans are really obsessed with race.”

    By Max Fisher
    Israel
    The truth about the near-miss Israel/Syria deal that some think could have averted the warThe truth about the near-miss Israel/Syria deal that some think could have averted the war
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    Israel

    Could a Syria-Israel peace deal really have prevented the Syrian civil war?

    By Max Fisher
    World Politics
    Forestalling the inevitable: why Obama is extending our never-ending Afghanistan warForestalling the inevitable: why Obama is extending our never-ending Afghanistan war
    World Politics

    The next president will come into office overseeing the longest war in US history — and one that everyone knows is doomed.

    By Max Fisher
    World Politics
    Here are the foreign policy questions CNN should’ve asked at the Democratic debateHere are the foreign policy questions CNN should’ve asked at the Democratic debate
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    World Politics

    Viewers didn’t get very good foreign policy questions — which is too bad, because the disagreements among candidates are pretty significant.

    By Max Fisher
    Politics
    What they said vs what they really meant: Democratic debate on “America’s greatest threat”What they said vs what they really meant: Democratic debate on “America’s greatest threat”
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    Politics

    Why Clinton talked about nukes, Sanders about climate change, and Jim Webb, yet again, about China.

    By Max Fisher
    Syria’s war: a 5-minute history
    Video

    Watch how the Syrian civil war became the mess it is today

    By Max Fisher and Johnny Harris
    archives
    Why you should celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving instead of Columbus DayWhy you should celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving instead of Columbus Day
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    For one thing, better food. For another, less explicitly genocidal overtones.

    By Max Fisher
    World Politics
    Obama had a pretty sick burn mocking Putin’s “leadership”Obama had a pretty sick burn mocking Putin’s “leadership”
    World Politics

    “If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we’ve got a different definition of leadership.”

    By Max Fisher
    World Politics
    The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize winner, explainedThe 2015 Nobel Peace Prize winner, explained
    World Politics

    This year’s prize, for the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, is meant as a lesson to the world on how to resolve conflict and preserve democracy.

    By Max Fisher