The Middle East is hardly a cheery place these days. But there's one silver lining: The Iran deal is paying off big.
Columns
Diamond-rich Botswana avoided the dreaded resource curse and established a prosperous, stable democracy. But political turmoil has begun to roil the traditionally placid society.
Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test may be a last-ditch effort to get on the U.S. agenda before Obama leaves office and a hawkish new president comes in.
Economists said the market would save the planet. It didn't.
How the CIA, bad trade deals, and wanton military intervention caused the social crises that gave us the Donald. (Really.)
There's a bipartisan effort to justify the killing of civilians in the "war on terrorism."
Obama's made a lot of Faustian bargains over the last seven years. But given his likely successors, what we got over the last two terms may be as good as it gets.
Powerful forces are maneuvering to torpedo any Syrian peace process that could leave room for Bashar al-Assad.
A few politicians and intellectuals decry "Islamofascists," but the real target of Islamophobia is the mainstream Islam of mosques, moderate imams, and your friendly Muslim neighbors.
Without concrete, enforceable emissions targets and transition financing, the Paris climate talks will only deepen our climate crisis.