About a year ago, my good friend and colleague Hans-Inge Longo told me about the “Overnight Brief”—a summary of each day’s foreign policy news delivered each morning via email—from the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI).  My initial reaction was “FPI? Bill Kristol’s group??”  Despite my visceral opposition to all things neoconservative, FPI offers a summary of the important news stories that is beyond useful for a foreign policy nerd like myself.  If anything, the “brief” is almost too thorough in summarizing the day’s news from various regions and on a variety of issues.  The only real downside to receiving the . . .
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