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When groups feel threatened, they retreat into tribalism.https://trib.al/rJkeOc9 

Personal chilliness between Trump and Trudeau may undermine the substance of the U.S.-Canada relationship.https://trib.al/T9Dcb8k 

The AKP and Erdogan remain Turkey’s most powerful and popular political force, but signs of decay are obvious.https://trib.al/RhN3E1d 

India under Modi has taken up the fight against corruption.https://trib.al/lUQQAXS 

Blindness to the power of tribalism affects not only how Americans see the rest of the world but also how they understand their own society.https://trib.al/PyHafup 

Today in the United States, the top one percent of households earn around 20 percent of the nation’s income, a dramatic change from the middle of the twentieth century, when income was spread more evenly.https://trib.al/7mtvHjG 

Although Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) remain the heavy favorites to win on Sunday, they are more vulnerable now than they ever have been.https://trib.al/ja5G41m 

In recent years, tribalism has begun to tear at the fabric of liberal democracies in the developed world, and even at the postwar liberal international order.https://trib.al/rlf3Hwb 

We will make better policy when we think more pragmatically and less fearfully about what a migration crisis is.https://trib.al/SAXCeE9 

As inequality has increased, the country has witnessed a fraying of communities and institutions and deepening divisions along socioeconomic lines.https://trib.al/nz1bCLf 

In many places, the identities that matter most—the ones people will lay down their lives for—are not national but ethnic, regional, religious, sectarian, or clan-based.https://trib.al/HN1zmwH 

If secessionists conclude that abiding by the rules generates few rewards, the consequences could be ugly.https://trib.al/PsYLDdW 

The United States’ leaving NAFTA would constitute a frontal attack on the two countries’ shared commitment to free trade—one of their alliance’s foundational principles, along with collective security, multilateralism, democracy, and the free market.https://trib.al/VXEIFXI 

After years of Erdogan and the AKP hardening their stance toward both Turkish and Syrian Kurds, their fates may, ironically, lie in Kurdish hands.https://trib.al/TmheErz 

Germany reaps tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in lifetime added-value from each Syrian that is successfully integrated into its labor force, an incredible bargain for the one-off $14,000 per person resettlement cost.https://trib.al/aWbASwE 

From the Mediterranean coast of northern Spain to the island states of the South Pacific, secessionism is on the rise.https://trib.al/z4mPzU2 

The power of tribalism rarely factors into high-level discussions of politics and international affairs, especially in the United States.https://trib.al/1VFjK4S 

What makes Trump different from past presidents, Canadians fear, is that his distaste for the prime minister is not just personal.https://trib.al/dqQohHN 

Sunday's election in Turkey may be the last chance to defeat Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s strongman president, and prevent a total collapse of Turkish governing institutions.https://trib.al/GsMR6HT 

In the winner-take-all economy of the contemporary United States, the gap between the top and the bottom has grown so large that it undermines any reasonable notion of equal opportunity.https://trib.al/PjyQXzp