Peace picks June 20-24

9 years ago

Decision Point For The Citizens Of Europe: Brexit Referendum And Spanish Parliamentary Elections | Monday, June 20th | 12:00-1pm |…

Don’t forget Hezbollah

9 years ago

Here is the draft of the State Department dissent message on Syria, on which the New York Times based its coverage…

Turkey’s Kurdish anxieties

9 years ago

The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted Cascading Conflicts: U.S. Policy on Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds Tuesday morning. This was nominally…

Hard questions, difficult answers

9 years ago

Murdered yesterday, Jo Cox gave this last speech in Parliament on Syria (via @ThomasPierret): Would that we could all lead lives that guarantee…

Dear UN,

9 years ago

Riyad Hijab, who heads the High Negotiations Commission of the Revolution and Opposition Forces, writes: UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Number: 256 Date: 16/6/2016…

Dump Trump

9 years ago

I'm a Democrat, albeit one who votes often for local Republicans. I don't like the one-party "state" I live in.…

Pay the piper

9 years ago

The Syria Campaign's Taking Sides, a report out today on how the United Nations operates its humanitarian relief efforts in…

Is Islam exceptional?

9 years ago

At last Thursday’s Brookings event celebrating the launch of his new book on Islamic Exceptionalism, Shadi Hamid laid out the historical and…

Hamilton, not the musical

9 years ago

A friend draws to my attention this, from Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Number 1: An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of…

Contrasting reactions

9 years ago

The statements of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton about the Orlando murders contrast dramatically. Trump calls the perpetrator a "radical…