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It's Not Business As Usual At the World Bank

The improbable controversy over the World Bank's flagship business survey.

BY DALIBOR ROHAC, MARIAN L. TUPY | APRIL 26, 2013

Why the Sheikhs Will Fall

The Gulf monarchies were once thought immune to the uprisings sweeping the Arab world. Not anymore.

BY CHRISTOPHER M. DAVIDSON | APRIL 26, 2013

Trade Winds

It’s taken four years, but President Obama is finally coming around to a pro-trade economic agenda. And it could be his greatest legacy.

BY JAMES K. GLASSMAN | APRIL 26, 2013

How to Save the Republican Party

Why the GOP needs to stop navel-gazing and embrace internationalism all over again. 

BY SEN. JOHN MCCAIN | APRIL 26, 2013

Brief Interviews with Hideous Terrorists

What it's like to sit and talk with jihadists, neo-Nazis, and lone-wolf killers.

BY JESSICA STERN | APRIL 25, 2013

Well, This Is Awkward

How Pervez Musharraf's foolish return to Pakistan is creating problems for the United States.

BY DANIEL MARKEY | APRIL 25, 2013

Paper Tiger

Why isn't the rest of Asia afraid of China?

BY DAVID KANG | APRIL 25, 2013

Did the FBI Bungle the Tsarnaev Case?

What the bureau can and can't do on American soil.

BY DAVID GOMEZ | APRIL 25, 2013

Intervention Escalation

Alleged chemical weapons use by Syria is pushing the United States into doing something. But Russia, China, and Iran might have something to say about that.

BY JAMES F. JEFFREY | APRIL 24, 2013

Bottom of the Barrel

Today's terrorists aren't "sophisticated." They're stupider than ever. 

BY MAX ABRAHMS | APRIL 24, 2013

Inspiration Inflation

We're all to blame for giving al Qaeda's magazine more credit than it's due.

BY J.M. BERGER | APRIL 23, 2013

How to Understand China's Foreign Policy

China can become a beacon for the world -- if it trades in its conservative foreign policy for one that emphasizes universal values.

BY DENG YUWEN | APRIL 23, 2013

The Wealthy Elizabethan Merchant Who Explains CNN’s Bad Boston Coverage

Jeff Zucker, meet Sir Thomas Gresham.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | APRIL 22, 2013

IED=WMD?

Why the Justice Department’s charge against the Boston bomber is ridiculous.

BY TIMOTHY NOAH | APRIL 22, 2013

The Monks Who Hate Muslims

Buddhist monks have been major instigators of the recent violence against Muslims in Burma.

BY FRANCIS WADE | APRIL 22, 2013

Black and White and Red All Over

How the hyperkinetic media is breeding a new generation of terrorists.

BY SCOTT ATRAN | APRIL 22, 2013

Boston's Jihadist Past

Long before the marathon bombing, Islamists in Massachusetts were helping militants in Chechnya.

BY J.M. BERGER | APRIL 22, 2013

China's Victim Complex

Why are Chinese leaders so paranoid about the United States?

BY ELY RATNER | APRIL 19, 2013

Boston Common

Can the marathon bombing resuscitate U.S.-Russian counterterror efforts?

BY DMITRI TRENIN | APRIL 19, 2013

Displaced

What happened to the people who fled the terror in Chechnya.

BY JOSHUA FOUST | APRIL 19, 2013

The Slow Death of Palestinian Democracy

With Salam Fayyad's forced resignation, President Mahmoud Abbas has eliminated his political rivals in the West Bank.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | APRIL 19, 2013

Our Friends in Manama

Why the United States should walk carefully and move slowly when it comes to reform in Bahrain.

BY RONALD E. NEUMANN | APRIL 19, 2013

Musharraf’s Great Folly Tests the Army

Pakistan's former dictator returned home to what he thought would be a hero's welcome. Instead, a court ordered his arrest -- and put the military in an awkward spot.

BY ARIF RAFIQ | APRIL 18, 2013

Forget What You Think You Know

Would we even recognize an al Qaeda attack if we saw one?

BY ANDREW LIEPMAN | APRIL 18, 2013

Why I'm Flying Back to Malaysia to Vote

When absentee voting just isn’t good enough.

BY HUI MEI LIEW KAISER | APRIL 18, 2013

It's Time to Act in Syria

American values and interests are at stake in stopping the country's slow-motion destruction.

BY DENNIS ROSS | APRIL 18, 2013

An Army of One

What makes lone-wolf terrorists so dangerous?

BY JEFFREY D. SIMON | APRIL 17, 2013

Mostly Quiet on the Western Front

Why isn’t terrorism in the United States a whole lot more frequent?

BY DAVID H. SCHANZER | APRIL 17, 2013

Requiem for Fayyadism

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad never had a chance to meet the outlandishly high expectations placed on him by his international boosters.

BY NATHAN J. BROWN | APRIL 17, 2013

A Few Bad Men

Why America doesn’t really have a terrorism problem.

BY MAX ABRAHMS | APRIL 16, 2013