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The West’s obsession with ‘good refugees’ is bad policy

Wealthy countries love to celebrate immigrant success stories, but they are letting many potentially productive citizens fall through the cracks

FILE PHOTO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends the opening ceremony of floating bridges and tunnel projects executed under the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt May 5, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

US joins West in rare criticism of Egypt on human rights abuses

A man mourns the death of seven members of a family, killed in a house hit in a reported airstrike by pro-regime forces in the town of Sarmin in the northern Syrian Idlib province on February 2, 2020. OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy

Betrayed by their leaders, failed by the West, Arabs still want democracy

As the central bank of the US, the Federal Reserve sets financial policy and bank-industry regulations that ultimately affect every American. Photo: Getty Images via Foreign Policy

The West’s constitutional crises threaten the economy’s last best hope

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and China's President Xi Jinping attend a meeting in Shanghai on May 22, 2014. Photo: Kenzaburo Fukuhara/AFP via GETTY images/Foreign Policy

Iran’s pact with China is bad news for the west

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council in Moscow, Russia February 28, 2020. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS

How Putin and the KGB took control of Russia—and duped the west

Don’t be held back. Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images/Bloomberg

The virus should wake up the west