Subject: Editors' Picks: The future of Sweden's welfare state, and why Russia won't budge on Japan's island claims
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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 16:43:49 -0500 (CDT)

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EDITORS' PICKS

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09/05/2018

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today we look at what a dispute over four tiny islands says about the relationship between Russia and Japan, how Germany should handle currents of resurgent nationalism, and why Sweden’s welfare state is under strain.

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NAVIGATING NATIONALISM: Germany’s far-right wants to revive ethnic nationalism. The left must come up with its own alternative, Yascha Mounk writes for FP’s fall print edition.

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CONTINUITY IN "CRAZYTOWN": Bob Woodward’s Trump book isn’t even out yet, and it already feels old, FP’s Michael Hirsh writes.

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WRESTLING WITH WELFARE: International observers will likely point to tensions over immigration to explain the results of Sweden’s upcoming election on Sept. 9, but the country’s lethargic economic growth and the gradual buildup of inefficiencies in the public sector cannot be overlooked, Nima Sanandaji writes.

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SEA CHANGE: Although it’s unlikely that Japan will achieve a diplomatic breakthrough with Russia over disputed territory in the southern Kuril Islands anytime soon, this might not be a problem for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as long as he keeps putting in the effort, J. Berkshire Miller writes.

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TEMPEST IN A CHALICE: The ferocity of the Vatican’s civil war has less to do with theology or justice than with petty office politics, writes Andrew Brown.

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