Articles

Donald Trump is helping Iran’s radicals

2017-02-13

Deploring the Donald is the one thing that unites the mullahs and the middle class

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How America Could Stumble Into War With Iran

2017-02-10

A major conflagration, whether intentional or not, is perhaps likelier now than ever.

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What Exactly Is Trump’s Travel Ban Supposed to Stop?

2017-02-10

How the president’s advisers have made their case

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Trump’s Chaos Theory of Government

2017-02-07

Trump’s transition was initially reassuring but all hell broke loose as Trump and Bannon began to implement their project in earnest

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Trump’s National Security Council Undergoes Change

2017-02-05

Trump may have changed the standard to what a president does in the first couple of weeks

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Tackling Iran: Trump fuels the fire

2017-02-04

Iran moved into President Donald J. Trump’s firing line when his national security advisor put the Islamic republic on notice

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Playing with Economic Matches

2017-02-01

The International Monetary Fund reported disappointing global GDP growth

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Trump brings shame to U.S. with immigration ban based on fear

2017-01-29

President has obliterated one of our countrys most virtuous tenets and crushed the American Dream for thousands who sought a better life

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When the Mob Rules, Everyone Is a Target

2017-01-22

Trump’s ochlocracy brings dangers and threats that the Republic has not witnessed since Joe McCarthy. Do we even know how to fight back?

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The Middle East’s Next Moment of Reckoning

2017-01-21

State-led reforms will not be enough to alleviate public discontent in the region

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Equipping people to stay ahead of technological change

2017-01-14

It is easy to say that people need to keep learning throughout their careers. The practicalities are daunting

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The Next World Order

2017-01-11

We have been trying to fit the round pegs of twenty-first-century global power into the square holes of post-World War II institutions

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Democracy’s Broken Promises

2017-01-06

It’s facile to blame the politics of post-truth practiced by populists. Lies and exaggerations would not work if current democratic practice were without problems

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Turkey's Politics of Terrorism

2017-01-02

Letter from Ankara

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Turkey’s permanent state of crisis

2017-01-01

Erdogan has dismantled Ataturk’s secularism in just over a decade and has done so with little mercy for his opponents

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Looking Beyond Mosul

2016-12-31

Once the Islamic State is defeated, Iraq will have to mend a divided society

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The Next Migrant Wave

2016-12-30

Climate change will be one of many factors fueling future migration waves

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Language and the Human Brain

2016-12-25

The earliest research on speech and language centers of the brain dates back to the early nineteenth century

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MYANMAR: MILITARY CARRIED OUT ‘CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’ AGAINST ROHINGA MUSLIMS, SAYS AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

2016-12-19

The military launched an offensive against the minority group in October

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Trump and the Middle East: Between Hope and Apprehension

2016-12-13

Although most everyone in the region badly wants to turn the page on present-day failures, uncertainties about the next administration abound

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Will Trump Stay or Go in Iraq?

2016-12-12

Should the next administration seek to maintain an ongoing U.S. military presence in post-caliphate Iraq?

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A New Deal for Refugees

2016-12-11

Even asylum is inadequate to enable refugees to rebuild their lives

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The Complexity of Inequality

2016-12-11

Inequality remains poorly defined, its effects highly variable, and its causes hotly debated

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How does ISIS do intelligence?

2016-12-07

Even if Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s caliphate ends, he has already laid the groundwork for its successors

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