Politics

Four Arab Democrats and A Constitutional Scholar Walk Into a Bar

Some free advice for my MENA friends.

BY DANIEL LANSBERG-RODRIGUEZ | MAY 6, 2013

High Stakes and the Sequester Squeeze

When defense budgets get tight, politics can get a little complicated.

BY GORDON ADAMS | MAY 6, 2013

Outfoxing the Oligarchs in Latvia

How a tiny Baltic republic succeeded in taking its oligarchs down a peg.

BY GABRIEL KURIS | MAY 6, 2013

The Most Dangerous Border in the World

Why is China picking a fight with India?

BY ELY RATNER, ALEXANDER SULLIVAN | MAY 4, 2013

Beirut's Bastille

The free-for-all inside Lebanon's most notorious prison.

BY SULOME ANDERSON | MAY 2, 2013

The Rise of Germany's Tea Party

Could a brand-new, anti-euro political movement threaten Merkel's quest for a third term?

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | MAY 2, 2013

Tea Leaves in Tashkent

Who will follow Uzbekistan’s aging dictator?

BY PHILIP SHISHKIN | MAY 2, 2013

Our Shared Islamist Enemy

From Boston to Israel, radicals are attempting to destroy Western culture.

BY YAIR SHAMIR | MAY 1, 2013

In Search of Reinhold Niebuhr

America could use a little philosophical humility right now.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 1, 2013

Hawking Something

The Syria interventionists want us to go to war. They're wrong.

BY MICAH ZENKO | APRIL 30, 2013

Ghostbusters

Malaysia’s pro-democracy activists might not win Sunday’s election. But they could win the battle against electoral fraud.

BY DEBORAH LOH | APRIL 30, 2013

Minister No

Sergei Lavrov and the blunt logic of Russian power.

BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | MAY/JUNE 2013

Xi's War Drums

China's new leader is using the military to consolidate his power. But has he unleashed forces beyond his control?

BY JOHN GARNAUT | MAY/JUNE 2013

The End of the Gandhis

Can Rahul Gandhi run India? Can anybody?

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY/JUNE 2013

In Defense of Leading from Behind

So what if it's a terrible slogan? It's still the right strategy.

BY LESLIE H. GELB | MAY/JUNE 2013

You Can't Go Home Again

An exiled journalist returns to a changed Burma.

BY MIN ZIN | MAY/JUNE 2013

Minority Report

Should presidents seek out dissent?

MAY/JUNE 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

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

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

The Wanderer

Meet Degi Dudayev. It's not easy being the son of independent Chechnya's dead president.

BY YULIA YUZIK | APRIL 24, 2013

YaLa Young Leaders

How a Facebook organization could transform the Middle East.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 24, 2013

The Ugly Choice in the Middle East

Permanent chaos, or a new generation of strongmen? Take your pick.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | 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

Portrait of a Chechen Jihadist

Meet Abu Hamza, a Chechen who went to Syria to fight.

BY NICHOLAS CLAYTON | APRIL 19, 2013

The Invisible War

Russians weren't paying much attention to their own war on terror. But that was before the attacks in Boston.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | 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

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

The Middle East's Kings of Cowardice

Why are the Gulf's leaders so afraid of a few jokes?

BY MARC LYNCH | APRIL 18, 2013

Off to a Bad Start

Why is the president letting America's nukes rust?

BY SEN. JIM INHOFE, SEN. BOB CORKER | APRIL 18, 2013