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Is Bashar al-Assad Syria’s Abraham Lincoln?
The Syrian president's fans are comparing him with the hero of America's Civil War. Here's why they're wrong.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 14, 2012
Four-Star Egos
The cult of the general from Douglas MacArthur to David Petraeus.
BY MARK PERRY | NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Scenes From a Forgotten War
What happened the last time America got bogged down in North Africa.
NOVEMBER 2, 2012
Lessons From a Forgotten War
How America’s first foray into the modern Arab world can help solve its current entanglements.
BY ROBERT SATLOFF | NOVEMBER 2, 2012
The Collaborator's Song
We often ask why some people choose to resist authoritarian regimes. But the better question might be why so many decide to cooperate.
BY ANNE APPLEBAUM | OCTOBER 31, 2012
A Short History of World War III
I lost the Cuban Missile Crisis and nuked the world from my couch ... and you can too.
BY MICHAEL PECK | OCTOBER 26, 2012
Still 'Secret' After All These Years
Why do Pentagon securocrats continue to censor well-known, publicly available information?
BY WILLIAM BURR | OCTOBER 26, 2012
In Praise of Apathy
It's time to stop deriding the Americans who refuse to vote. They're trying to tell us something.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | OCTOBER 24, 2012
The Man Who Brought the Black Flag to Timbuktu
A new Islamist strongman has taken the stage in North Africa. His rising power is giving him a lot of bad ideas.
BY WILLIAM LLOYD-GEORGE | OCTOBER 22, 2012
The 9 Most Important Lessons From the Cuban Missile Crisis
Announcing the award-winning insights from our nation's closest brush with nuclear war.
OCTOBER 19, 2012
The Kingdom of Silence and Humiliation
Looking back on life under the Assad dynasty.
BY AHED AL HENDI | OCTOBER 16, 2012
Remembering the White Terror
25 years after the end of authoritarianism, Taiwan is still struggling to come to terms with its past.
BY AMBER PARCHER | OCTOBER 12, 2012
Of Myths and Missiles
What Les Gelb gets wrong about the Cuban missile crisis.
BY STEPHEN SESTANOVICH | OCTOBER 12, 2012
Cuba Almost Became a Nuclear Power in 1962
The scariest moment in history was even scarier than we thought.
BY SVETLANA SAVRANSKAYA | OCTOBER 10, 2012
Wild About Harry
Remember when Republicans loved Harry Truman? Me neither.
BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | OCTOBER 9, 2012
A Father's Secret…
And his journalist son's search for the truth.
BY SCOTT C. JOHNSON | NOVEMBER 2012
Declassified
The son of a Red Army intelligence officer sent to die in a Siberian gulag discovers his father's KGB file, and a cottage industry of children-of-spies memoirs.
BY PETER BUCK FELLER | NOVEMBER 2012
Thirteen Days in October
A day-by-day examination of the world's most dangerous nuclear standoff.
BY MICHAEL DOBBS, RACHEL DOBBS | OCTOBER 8, 2012
The Myth That Screwed Up 50 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy
It's time to set the record straight about John F. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis.
BY LESLIE H. GELB | NOVEMBER 2012
In Defense of Le Corbusier
The architect would have influenced Chinese cities for the better -- if he'd had the chance.
NOVEMBER 2012
Better Late than Never
How naive self-confidence led Barack Obama astray, before prudence brought him back.
BY JAMES TRAUB | OCTOBER 5, 2012
Damascene Conversion
The amazing historic sites that Syria's civil war is destroying.
BY SULOME ANDERSON | OCTOBER 1, 2012
Rebooting the Bureaucracy in Georgia
As Georgian voters prepare to vote in a crucial parliamentary election, a look back at one of the signature programs of President Mikheil Saakashvili.
BY RICHARD BENNET | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
A Countervailing View
No, we did not think we could win a nuclear war.
BY HAROLD BROWN | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Golden Buddha, Hidden Copper
Twelve years after the Taliban blew up the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas, a Chinese mining firm -- developing one of the world's largest copper deposits -- threatens to destroy another of Afghanistan's archeological treasures.
BY LOIS PARSHLEY | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
The Problem with Patriotism
The dispute over islands in the East China Sea is stirring up nationalist passions in the region. That doesn't bode well for the future of democracy.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
How to Fight a Nuclear War
Revealed: Jimmy Carter's strategy for Armageddon. (We're still using it.)
BY WILLIAM BURR | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
The City with a Short Fuse
How a shrewd politician defused ethnic tension and improved public services in one of Indonesia’s most dysfunctional cities.
BY RUSHDA MAJEED | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Tensions in September
BY RACHEL DOBBS | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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