Good Friday
What We’re Listening To: Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ

How to comprehend the meaning of Good Friday? Good music helps.

Outreach
Operation Soothe-the-Sunnis

The Obama Administration moves to reassure regional allies we had taken for granted.

Europe's Paper Militaries
EU and What Army?

This isn’t going to keep Vladimir Putin up nights.

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The Nuclear Deal
The Senators Are Right on Iran

Put not your faith in Presidents—unless you get a Congressional say-so.

Liberte Fraternite—Capitalisme
Hollande’s Capitalist Conversion

Hollande is embracing economic reforms—but his party isn’t so keen.

The Netanyahu Speech
Israel Speaks for the Sunnis

Bibi’s position is also that of his neighbors.

U.S. Policy in the Middle East
The Other Side of Iran’s “Strategic Genius”

Iran isn’t just doing well in the nuclear negotiations—thanks in part to U.S. policy, the situation on the ground in the Middle East is going Tehran’s way, too.

Obama's Iran Strategy
The President Talks Past His Critics on Iran

The President has laid out his vision, but shows little sign of interacting with widely-held critiques of it.

2015 Watch
Power Rankings: The Critical States

Here’s the third tier of our global power rankings: those states most likely to have a destabilizing effect on world order in 2015.

Go Big or Go Home
America’s Systemic Failure in Syria

Why did it take the US four months to clear a town the size of Biloxi, MS?

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