2019-02-23
2019-02-13
After US orchestrated the challenge to President Maduro legitimacy in Venezuela and recognizing the leader of general assembly Guaido as an interim president...
What will it take for Washington to accept Iran as a “normal” state
2019-02-06
In his first hundred days on the job, Adel Abdul Mahdi has hit entrenched political roadblocks to choosing cabinet ministers and changing a system of political patronage.
Our diets are becoming less healthy, and global food production is increasingly unsustainable. A new report suggests that the planet can sustainably provide a healthy diet for ten billion people in the future...
2019-02-03
At the recent World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, participants made the same mistake they always do
National security adviser John Bolton traveled to Israel this month to reassure jittery officials in Jerusalem that the Trump administration
2019-01-16
Over the course of this year and next, the biggest economic risks will emerge in those areas where investors think recent patterns are unlikely to change
2019-01-15
The main argument is that it is a mistake to think that ISIS has been defeated just because the last town that it held has been liberated...
Over a period of mere days in late December the Trump administration made two troop withdrawal decisions that startled Washington
2019-01-12
Time magazine did not choose Donald Trump as its Person of the Year in 2018, but it may do so this year
2019-01-08
Even if American troops come home in a timely fashion, they will likely return before long
t has been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and despite significant progress toward improving life expectancy and boosting incomes around the world
2019-01-06
Technologies powered by artificial intelligence are being applied to some of the world’s most challenging human-development issues
Iran is exerting considerable pressure on the Iraqi government to compel it not to abide by the US sanctions that have been imposed on Tehran in order for it to change
2018-12-28
Autocracys Global Ascendance
This Human Rights Day (December 10) marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations General Assemblys adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2018-12-08
The demise of the Weekly Standard is proof that the once popular neoconservatism of the past few decades has died
2018-12-02
A secret biography suggests that Abu Ali al-Anbari defined the group’s radical approach more than any other person.
The success of this week’s G-20 meeting is threatened by the increasing tensions between the Ukraine and Russia.
2018-11-24
The mid term elections are over and Americans are preparing for a number of resignations and firings inside the White House
2018-11-09
Instead of wasting the gas the country will reap the benefits of putting it to good use
2018-10-20
Now that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have plummeted from last years absurdly high valuations, the techno-utopian mystique of so-called distributed-ledger technologies should be next.
2018-10-07
The fact is that Israel and Russia have a relationship that goes back over a century
2018-10-06
The Trump administrations push to create a new military department, known as the Space Force, has generated a fair amount of skepticism and more than a few nerdy jokes
