{UAH} Picks from Foreign Policy

Tuesday, August 30    Welcome to Editors' Picks, FP's round-up of the day's best articles.

Today, we look at a Sri Lankan teenager's hack into his president's website, controversy over Apple's tax rate in Ireland, and why Donald Trump is hard to translate.

   1       TRUMP IN TRANSLATION: The Trump campaign adheres strongly to the idea that if you say something enough, people will begin to believe it -- which is part of what makes him so difficult to translate into other languages, write Christopher M. Livaccari and Jeff Wang: Read more     
2       PUTIN AND THE SHIITES: Russia's new military alliance with Iran is all about keeping Assad in power and America on its back foot. But marriages of convenience usually don't last, writes Anna Borshchevskaya: Read more     
3       SAVED BY THE HACKER: A teenager hacked into Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena's website twice to demand that he change the date of the college entrance exam, writes FP's Henry Johnson: Read more      
4       PRIESTS, POETS, AND TAX BREAKS: The European Union says Apple owes more than $14 billion in unpaid taxes. Ireland says it doesn't want the cash, writes FP's David Francis: Read more      
0        REBUTTAL: The George W. Bush administration still lives in a world of make-believe, writes Jean Edward Smith in a rebuttal to a review of his recent book Bush: Read more    

Gwokto La'Kitgum

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