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Spoiler Alert

I know counterterrorism and the CIA -- and almost everything in Homeland is ridiculous. But I'm still watching.

BY BRUCE HOFFMAN | DECEMBER 18, 2012

My Dinner with Jalal

Remembering better times with Iraq's stricken president.

BY PETER BOUCKAERT | DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Dictator's Daughter

The heir of a controversial South Korean autocrat is now the country's first female president. Can she emerge from his shadow?

BY GEOFFREY CAIN | DECEMBER 18, 2012

The U.N.'s Haitian Shell Game

Ban Ki-moon still isn't taking responsibility for Haiti's cholera outbreak.

BY JONATHAN M. KATZ, TOM MURPHY | DECEMBER 18, 2012

A Line in the Sea

Is Japan’s new leader going to pick a fight with China?

BY MICHAEL AUSLIN | DECEMBER 18, 2012

Newtown and the Doomsday Preppers

Could survivalism really have played a role in Friday's massacre?

BY J.M. BERGER | DECEMBER 17, 2012

The Real Susan Rice

Setting the record straight on the U.N. ambassador and colleague we know.

BY MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT, SAMUEL R. BERGER | DECEMBER 14, 2012

What It Takes

Why the next SecDef should channel Robert McNamara.

BY LAWRENCE J. KORB, ALEX ROTHMAN | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Tokyo Hawks

Meet the conservatives who could soon run Japan.

BY JEFF KINGSTON | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Hagel Unchained

Why do neocon Republicans hate Chuck Hagel so much? Because of what he would do as secretary of defense.

BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Chuck Hagel Wants to Be Dwight Eisenhower

We read the senator's 2008 book on defense so that you don't have to.

BY J. DANA STUSTER | DECEMBER 14, 2012

The Brothers and the Gulf

Why the Muslim Brotherhood has Gulf leaders worried -- now more than ever.

BY SULTAN AL QASSEMI | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Did Russia Just Throw Assad Under the Bus?

Not really. Watch what the Kremlin does, not what it says.

BY ANDREW S. WEISS | DECEMBER 13, 2012

Launch This

Why Barack Obama needs to reset his North Korea policy.

BY JOEL S. WIT, JENNY TOWN | DECEMBER 13, 2012

David and Paula

The Petraeus affair may be over, as far as the media circus is concerned. But its baleful aftereffects linger on.

BY SARAH CHAYES | DECEMBER 13, 2012

After Abbas

The Palestinian president will either be toppled from his throne, or die on it. And that may be Hamas's chance to pounce.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | DECEMBER 13, 2012

Ripe for Rivalry

Has Asia's moment of reckoning finally arrived?

BY VICTOR D. CHA | DECEMBER 12, 2012

Patience Has Not Been a Virtue

Was the Obama administration to blame for North Korea's rocket launch?

BY DARYL G. KIMBALL | DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Checklist Manifesto

Five steps to getting the defense budget right.

BY LAWRENCE J. KORB | DECEMBER 12, 2012

Rocket Backstage

Behind the scenes of North Korea's nuclear deliberations.

BY ANDREA BERGER | DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Star Student

Poland is the classic market economy. But it knows that its future depends on staying close to the European Union.

BY JAKUB WIŚNIEWSKI | DECEMBER 12, 2012

Born Free, But Not Indifferent

Yes the government should protect free speech. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t speak out.

BY COREY BRETTSCHNEIDER | DECEMBER 12, 2012

All About the Benjamins

Why Bashar al-Assad won't go.

BY BRUCE BUENO DE MESQUITA, ALASTAIR SMITH | DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Architect of the Future That Never Was

The failed dreamscapes of Oscar Niemeyer.

BY RICHARD J. WILLIAMS | DECEMBER 11, 2012

Rally 'Round the Jihadist

The Obama administration slapped a terrorist designation on Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra -- but only managed to spark an anti-U.S. backlash among anti-Assad groups.

BY AARON Y. ZELIN | DECEMBER 11, 2012

Decline Is a Choice

The West has nothing to fear but fear itself.

BY HUBERT VÉDRINE | DECEMBER 10, 2012

Keeping the Flame Alive

This Hanukkah, Israel doesn't have to worry about running out of oil.

BY FRANK JACOBS | DECEMBER 10, 2012

Intel Inside

Has the IAEA's information become politicized?

BY MARK HIBBS | DECEMBER 10, 2012

Missile Creep

Was giving Patriots to Turkey a step toward war in Syria?

BY AARON STEIN, SHASHANK JOSHI | DECEMBER 10, 2012

Return of the Silviosaur

Italian politics these days is like Sunset Boulevard meets Jurassic Park.

BY JAMES WALSTON | DECEMBER 10, 2012