Saudi Security Fears
The Great Wall of Arabia

ISIS is probing for weak points along a major Saudi border security project.

After Charlie Hebdo
Can Europe Find a Way to Discuss Integration?

After Hebdo and the PEGIDA marches, is there a leader who can plot a middle course?

Unchanging Egypt
Sisi’s Return to Business as Usual

Three court rulings mark a new, old tone.

2015 Watch
Power Rankings: The Second Tier

The second part of our series on global power in 2015. This time: the aspiring powers, the regional hegemons, the has-beens and the wanna-bes.

The President and the Pirate
To Keep America Free

Today is the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, in which a most American combination of a future President, a pirate, and freed slaves beat the world’s best army.

Blue lines and Blue Models
Tribalism and Peak Left

Contra Daniel Patrick Moynihan, many people now believe they are entitled to their own facts.

An American Anniversary
The Gift of the Thing Not Done

How the country was indelibly shaped by Washington’s greatest deed.

Thin Blue Wall
Cop Assassinations Underline Why Americans Give Police Leeway

The Ramos-Liu shooting should remind America’s elite of a truth many others already know.

East of Suez
Britain Builds First Base in East In 40+ Years

Does the new base signal a “pivot”, or an acknowledgement of an existing reality?

Erdogan's Speeches
Foreigners Only Want Muslims’ Money, Turkish Prez Says

Are his increasingly conspiratorial rants turning the Turkish President into the Chavez of the Middle East?

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