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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Truces like the one in the Gulf get broken all the time. But they still work

Good data are hard to come by

Kennedy, Johnson and McNamara were private realists but chose the path of least resistance, writes Fredrik Logevall

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Binyamin Netanyahu is quick to start conflicts, but shows no ability to end them