Those of us still alive all remember where we were on November 22, 1963. I was crossing the campus of…
Decades of instability and war have transformed Somalia into a hotbed for extremist activity. Despite international and regional efforts to…
I spent a couple of hours last night in mild pain watching "The Square," a documentary tracing the main turning…
Or maybe it is a good metaphor for getting anything done in today's complex world (via Joseph aka Randy Michelson):
Reuters published this piece today: High-level Geneva talks with Iran adjourned November 11 without reaching an agreement. Lower-level talks are to…
Today is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg address. Talk of it in Washington is inescapable. So here is Lincoln's…
The nuclear talks with Iran are officially with the P5+1 (that's the US, UK, France, Russia and China). But they…
Milan Marinković writes from Niš: Serb extremist attacks on three polling stations in the northern part of Kosovo during the…
DC's top events of the week: 1. Oil Security and the US Military Commitment to the Persian Gulf Monday, November…
David Dunford and Ghassan Muhsin's Talking to Strangers: The Struggle to Rebuild Iraq's Foreign Ministry tells an important tale: how people…