Libya
The Sounds of the Revolution
Nearly two months into Libya's uprising, the rhythms of rebellion in Benghazi seem almost normal.
BY RYAN CALDER | APRIL 11, 2011
How Not to Declare a War
The Obama administration's legal rationale for bombing Libya suggests that while George W. Bush may be gone, the imperial presidency isn't.
BY SCOTT HORTON | APRIL 11, 2011
Tribal Warriors
Why is it so hard for strongmen to say goodbye?
BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN | APRIL 11, 2011
Bad Politics, Worse Prose
From suicidal astronauts to bestiality, you can learn a lot about what makes the world's worst tyrants tick from the terrible books they write.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | APRIL 8, 2011
Can Libya's Rebels Go Pro?
A visit to the embattled city of Ajdabiya finds the anti-Qaddafi resistance slightly less ragtag than before, but still not quite professional.
BY RYAN CALDER | APRIL 8, 2011
Making Fun of Qaddafi
The rebels may not be winning but they're successfully mocking Libya's leader -- Uncle Curly -- with flair. A look at the graffiti of the Libyan revolution.
APRIL 7, 2011
Benghazi Diary
Three weeks in the revolutionary heartland of eastern Libya.
BY RYAN CALDER | APRIL 7, 2011
The Constitutional Clock Is Ticking on Obama's War
There's no question about it: The president must ask Congress to approve the Libya intervention. So why is Obama resisting?
BY BRUCE ACKERMAN, OONA HATHAWAY | APRIL 6, 2011
The Mind of Muammar
What can we learn from reading the Libyan dictator's Green Book?
BY CHRISTINA LARSON | APRIL 5, 2011
Obama's 21st-Century War
In America's latest wars, leaving -- not winning -- seems to be the yardstick for success. But that goal is all the more difficult if the objectives and reasons for getting in aren't clear from the outset.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 5, 2011
The Two Faces of Libya's Rebels
The anti-Qaddafi forces are a strange mix of ragtag fighters and defector technocrats. And more than guns, the latter desperately need Western moral support.
BY JASON PACK | APRIL 5, 2011
Is America Addicted to War?
The top 5 reasons why we keep getting into foolish fights.
BY STEPHEN M. WALT | APRIL 4, 2011
Getting Libya's Rebels Wrong
Don't buy Qaddafi's line: The rebels aren't al Qaeda.
BY NAJLA ABDURRAHMAN | MARCH 31, 2011
A Moral Adventure
Is Barack Obama as much of a foreign-policy realist as he thinks he is?
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 31, 2011
Children of the Revolution
In the uprisings across the Arab world, protesters are finding that revolution is sometimes child's play.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON, AYLIN ZAFAR | MARCH 31, 2011
The Enemies of Our Enemy
Libya contributed hundreds of the fiercest foreign fighters to Iraq's al Qaeda-led insurgency. Should Washington be worried that it's now backing these guys against Qaddafi?
BY JOSEPH FELTER AND BRIAN FISHMAN | MARCH 30, 2011
Mission Not Accomplished
Obama's Libyan adventure is already a failure, and it will likely get worse.
BY JOHN YOO , ROBERT DELAHUNTY | MARCH 29, 2011
The Syrian Time Bomb
Forget Libya. Washington should pay closer attention to the violent protests imperiling the Assad regime in Damascus. If there's one country where unrest could truly set the Middle East alight, it's Syria.
BY PATRICK SEALE | MARCH 28, 2011
Libya's Pickup-Truck Army
The tide seems to have turned against Libya's ragtag rebel army.
MARCH 28, 2011
All the Colonel's Kings
How Qaddafi bought friends and influence on the African continent.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH 25, 2011
The Case for Intervention in the Ivory Coast
As Libya steals the spotlight, another crisis threatens the lives of countless thousands of civilians.
BY CORINNE DUFKA | MARCH 25, 2011
WikiLosers
Julian Assange said WikiLeaks would change the world. At the very least, it changed these people's lives forever.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 25, 2011
The Eye of the Storm
With the rebels in the Libyan opposition stronghold of Benghazi, awaiting Muammar al-Qaddafi's next move.
BY PATRICK GRAHAM | MARCH 25, 2011
Obama's Unconstitutional War
By unilaterally going to war against Libya, Obama is bringing America closer to the imperial presidency than Bush ever did.
BY BRUCE ACKERMAN | MARCH 24, 2011
The Qaddafi I Know
The Libyan leader was no saint. But the West was wrong to intervene in African affairs.
BY YOWERI MUSEVENI | MARCH 24, 2011
Who's Crusading Now?
Putin uses the c-word and Medvedev slaps him on the wrist. Is it a sign of trouble between Moscow's twosome or is Putin just an errant knight?
BY JULIA IOFFE | MARCH 23, 2011
De Gaulle, He Ain't
Nicolas Sarkozy's misguided quest for glory in Libya.
BY ARTHUR GOLDHAMMER | MARCH 22, 2011
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BY DAVID KENNER
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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
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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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