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In an election that will give its winner unprecedented powers, Turkey's formerly weak opposition has banded together, using the authoritarian president's own tools against him.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was once an athlete. Now, he uses sport for his own purposes—even as fans use it to express dissent.

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What the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh tells us about dissent in the Narendra Modi era.

Even if the deep state isn't real, the idea of one could do real damage.

How mundanity reasserts itself after a terrorist attack. And another. And another.

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