deteriorating relationships

The service’s impressive performance – a war
with global radical Islam makes way for the new
persistence of the Algerian connection – the New Deal
a half century later, a mainland they never knew, dismantling
formal barriers to racial equality, a bomb
on the stretch of a railroad – great masses
of the empire’s grandchildren refuse what is offered
the banking industry to corn producers  – a deteriorating
relationship between Jews and Muslims – deeper wellsprings
of resistance to the king, much-caricatured
American lobbying “free-for-all” – the government
simply wastes this complicated history

Derived from Foreign Affairs articles America in Decay and The Algerian Legacy

Facts Reborn

until it tried to be one, it would support that
right  – turn this weakness into his main – strength
dictated by fact-checkers
common external –  threat citizens confront
critical policy issues – new
agenda figures with the proper context
as before the crisis – ended up
completing ten common security and defense
policies – an official trip to Burkina Faso
the EU – left – in a deep
malaise – an important niche – being filled

Derived from Foreign Affairs articles Europe Reborn and Just the Facts