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About the author -- Introduction and acknowledgements -- BC: before covid-19. Strategic landscapes. The net effect -- A phenomenology of disinformation -- Huntington's errors of endism at thirty -- The beauty and necessity of humility -- Policy snapshots. Immigration I: the elite blind spot -- Immigration ii: skills-based immigration: good idea, bad reasons, worse context -- Immigration iii: there's no place like home -- Impeachment I: impeachable offenses are not necessarily crimes -- Impeachment ii: sifting through the wreckage -- Middle east I: Pompeo and the settlements: it's the politics, stupid -- Middle east ii: what to do about Idlib -- Bolton out, OBrien in: will it matter? -- The real problem with the trump foreign policy -- DC: during covid-19. Strategic landscapes. Here comes trouble -- At history's hinge: how not to waste a crisis -- Inequality, ideology, and American reordering -- Come the whirlwind?: a bad-case planning scenario -- The present madness? -- Policy snapshots. Covid-19 and the regime-type fallacy -- Big is not better, small is not better: better is better -- This means war! -- Dystopia vs dystopia: the Sino-American rivalry in cultural context -- The Biden predicament: not easy going forward.

1. Fundamentals of rhetoric and polemic -- 2. Becoming a better writer -- 3. Writing better still -- 4. The essay -- 5. The review -- 6. The op-ed -- 7. Speechwriting -- 8. Letters, toasts, and ceremonials -- 9. Memoranda -- 10. Commission reports -- 11. Blogs -- 12. A philosophy of editing.

With full coverage of recent dramatic events in Israeli politics from the Rabin assassination through the May 1996 elections, this work provides an up-to-date introduction to Israeli politics and society. It seeks to convey a strong sense of everyday life in Israel, the nuances and contradictions of Israeli identity, the ethnic composition and institutional structure of Israeli society, as well as Israeli political culture and the issues that dominate the country's domestic and foreign policy.

The military side of the war on terrorism, says Adam Garfinkle, is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of the solution. Weapons of mass destruction are activated by ideas of mass destruction, and these ideas arise from complex historical and social factors. A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism offers concrete steps for undermining the very notion that terrorism is a legitimate method of political struggleand for changing the conditions that lead people to embrace it. Adam Garfinkle and his expert contributorsall intimately familiar with Middle Eastern social settings and political culturesexamine the diplomatic, educational, and religious aspects of the problem. They show how we canand muststigmatize the idea of murdering civilians for any political cause, identify and stop the flow of money and other resources to those who carry out terrorism, refute the distortions of U.S. motivations that are promulgated by Islamic propagandists, and work patiently at social, economic, and political reform in Muslim countries.