Q&A with Israeli politician Yair Lapid, Netanyahu’s main challenger

JERUSALEM — As things stand today, Yair Lapid might just be the only person in Israel who could viably challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the leadership. A former journalist who once anchored Israel’s most popular television news show and the son of a former Israeli minister, Lapid heads a party called Yesh Atid (There […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/18/qa-with-israeli-politician-yair-lapid-netanyahus-main-challenger/

Was Anne Frank’s family betrayed? After 72 years, historians have a new theory.

    For two years, Anne Frank's family hid in secret rooms in Amsterdam, knowing that a curtain left open by mistake, a wayward noise or a nervous conspirator's phone call to the Nazis could land them all in concentration camps. The worst happened on a summer day in 1944, when investigators discovered their secret world […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/17/was-anne-franks-family-betrayed-after-72-years-historians-have-a-new-theory/

Venezuela’s crazy currency swap looks like alchemy, not economics

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro appears to have accomplished something this week that no one, and certainly no economist, would have thought possible. He has created a huge demand for the country’s long-slumping national currency, the bolívar. In a matter of days, the country with the world’s highest inflation rate, whose citizens were using […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/17/venezuelas-crazy-currency-swap-looks-like-alchemy-not-economics/

Obama just said the slaughter in South Sudan is not being reported on. He’s wrong.

Among the many things President Obama mentioned in his last news conference -- Russian hacking, Donald Trump's transition, Ronald Reagan rolling over in his grave -- was the war in South Sudan. Obama stated: "I feel responsible for murder and slaughter that's taken place in South Sudan that's not being reported on, partly because there's not […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/16/obama-just-said-the-slaughter-in-south-sudan-is-not-being-reported-on-hes-wrong/

A new Siberian reality show says murder and rape are acceptable

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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/16/a-new-siberian-reality-show-says-murder-and-rape-are-acceptable/