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Here are the top stories we recommend this week:

Praise for Mitt Romney‘s economic policies

Boston Globe | If only Trump had taken an economic lesson from Romney

Lord Adair Turner defends the use of ‘helicopter money’

Project Syndicate | Demystifying Monetary Finance

Joseph Stiglitz asks why have so many people become hostile to globalization?

World Economic Forum | Joseph Stiglitz: Why we need new rules to tame globalization

John Hulsman asserts that Iraq as a state has ceased to exist except in theory

Al Arabiya English | Defeating ISIS is beside the point; Iraq does not exist anymore

Niall Ferguson and Graham Allison on why the US could avoid future disater by looking to the past

The Atlantic | Why the U.S. President Needs a Council of Historians

Tom Chatfield on how the digital age’s most iconic terms show the human side of technology

The Atlantic | How Artificial Intelligence Got Its Name