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Lucy Schouten

Lucy Schouten served as an editorial intern at The American Spectator. She studied journalism, Arabic, and Middle East issues at Brigham Young University in Utah. She can be reached via Twitter @lucyjcomms.
by | Jun 30, 2014

If after the World Cup anyone is looking for a new underdog worthy of support, I submit the Kurds as…

by | Jun 26, 2014

There is something going on that I may not have told you about. It is really a matter of semantics,…

by | Jun 24, 2014

The American Spectator has already predicted a win for Tea Partier Chris McDaniel in today’s special Mississippi primary run-off. Senator…

by | Jun 23, 2014

It’s official. Iraq is having a party for all the sects in the Middle East, and we’re not invited. Our…

by | Jun 19, 2014

A Middle Eastern proverb tells of a Bedouin chief who believed that consumption of fowl would increase his masculine dignity…

by | Jun 19, 2014

The “war on women” continues, but not in the way you might think; in fact, the HHS mandate of Obamacare…

by | Jun 17, 2014

“Small government” may be a catchphrase of conservatism, but it is only one side of the coin that buys a…

by | Jun 16, 2014

The deterioration of Iraq into sectarian violence demands the same strategy espoused by Treebeard the Ent in Tolkien’s The Two…

by | Jun 13, 2014

The demographics of the Middle East have long clashed with the region’s geography. Nowhere is this clearer than in Iraq,…

by | Jun 11, 2014

“We are waiting to die,” Mahmoud al Taie, an Iraqi dentist, told the Wall Street Journal as he prepared to flee…

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