Turkey’s Kurdish anxieties

10 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

10 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,

10 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

10 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

10 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?

10 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

10 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

10 years ago

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

Peace picks June 13 – June 17

10 years ago

Authoritarian Resilience and Revision after the Arab Uprisings. Monday, June 13. 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Register…

Your Saturday puzzle

10 years ago

How many lies does Trump tell in this 11-minute tirade about the Trump University case? An answer can be found…