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Oct 24 20164 minutes
Beating ISIS—And Saving Iraq
ISIS’S CROWN JEWEL in Iraq for more than two years is all but guaranteed to fall soon to a major military offensive led by Iraqi security forces and bolstered by U.S. advisers and airpower. Retaking Mosul, a city of 1 million that has been a keystone
Oct 24 20162 minutes
The Iran Paradox
Roughly 2,500 years ago, the first great Persian Empire, led by Cyrus the Great, was founded. Over the next several centuries, it grew to dominate a significant portion of the world’s extant population and stretched from western India to the Mediterr
Oct 24 20162 minutes
The Financial World’s Rotten Culture Is Still A Threat—To All Of Us
SOMETIMES IT TAKES A GROUP of economists to confirm reality. Last year, a team of German academics released a study on the effects of major financial crises on politics, examining 800 elections over 140 years in 20 advanced economies. They found that
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Battling Lone-Wolf Terrorists At Home
THE ARRAY OF terrorist actors is broader, wider and deeper than it has been at any time since Sept. 11, 2001. While I have great confidence in the U.S. counterterrorism architecture built in the past 15 years and the professionals we have trained, th
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Even President Trump Couldn’t Turn Russia Into A Friend Of The U.S.
There have been a lot of column inches devoted to the danger of Donald Trump, if elected, becoming a puppet of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin itself has peddled this vision of the future in its propaganda, both domestically and in Ukra
Oct 24 20162 minutes
U.S.-Russia Tensions Reach Dangerous New Level
EVERY DAY AMERICAN PILOTS fly scores of sorties against terrorist targets in Syria. And on every mission, the pilots watch their instruments for signs that one of the Syrian government’s thousands of surface-to-air missiles, including Russian batteri
Oct 24 20163 minutes
Where The Next Crisis Will Come From
Keep an eye on depressed lenders, shadow banks, and China
Oct 24 20163 minutes
China’s Housing Bubble Wobble
Officials struggle to manage an uneven boom
Oct 24 20163 minutes
Greenwich Lean Time
Too many hedge funds, too much money, and not enough ideas
Oct 17 201612 minutes
The White Helmets Of Syria
As the war worsens, rescue workers risk their lives on the front lines
Oct 17 20161 minute
The Digital Cloud Is Underwater—And Vulnerable
IT WAS A SYMBOL OF PROGRESS, THE first transatlantic telegraph cable paid out from the deck of a ship between Telegraph Field in Ireland and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland. It took four years to lay, and it functioned for three weeks in 1858 before br
Oct 17 20161 minute
Syria’s First Responders
“WHOEVER SAVES ONE LIFE, SAVES ALL OF humanity,�? reads the verse from the Quran that serves as the fuel for an impossible mission. The White Helmets of Syria—teachers, tailors, builders, doctors—didn’t flee the country, didn’t take up arms; instead t
Oct 17 20161 minute
Ticker
Ohio ready to resume executions Ohio said it would resume executions in 2017, using a new three-drug combination. Lethal injections in the state were stalled for three years after a botched execution in which the condemned man took over 20 minutes t
Oct 17 20161 minute
Molly Crabapple
In a media landscape of tweets, Snaps and Facebook Lives, Molly Crabapple uses pen and ink—and markers and paint and sketchbooks. That’s because Crabapple, 33, is an artist-journalist, sketching from the front lines of conflicts in the U.S. and aroun
Oct 17 20161 minute
Why Deutsche Bank Is Spooking The Markets
“TOO BIG TO FAIL�? IS BACK. A SERIES OF penalties for past misconduct at Deutsche Bank, one of the linchpins of the global financial system, is threatening to ravage shareholders, raising fears about what happens to trillions of dollars in complex fin
Oct 17 20161 minute
Lotfullah Najafizada
Lotfullah Najafizada, head of TOLOnews, Afghanistan’s largest 24-hour news channel, often sleeps in the station’s compound in the Afghan capital of Kabul. “I don’t want to take the risks I face to my home,�? says the 28-year-old. “It’s not just about
Oct 17 20162 minutes
The World Owes Too Much Money
Companies in emerging markets stand out for their leverage | “Excessive private debt is a major headwind against�? global growth
Oct 16 20163 minutes
Triumph Of The Oligarchs
A CONVERSATION WITH FRANKLIN FOER
Oct 16 20161 minute
Remote-Control Killing: A Brief History
The U.S. Air Force established a “Pilotless Aircraft Branch�? after World War II, and by Vietnam, we were using surveillance drones in full force. Six days after 9/11, Bush authorized the CIA to hunt down terrorists, which eventually led to a “kill li
Oct 16 20162 minutes
The Original Sin Of The Wall Street Bailout
“NOBODY REALLY KNOWS why people didn’t go to jail. If you ask the Department of Justice, they might say, ‘We can’t charge people when we don’t have proof beyond a reasonable doubt.’ The fact is, the longer you take to investigate something, the more
Oct 16 20162 minutes
Al Qaeda To ISIS
“LET ME TAKE YOU back before the rise of ISIS to May 2, 2011. That’s the day when Osama bin Laden is killed in his hideout in Abbottabad, in Pakistan. The message that came out of Washington at that time is that Al Qaeda had been decapitated, that th
Oct 16 20162 minutes
It Came Closer To The Edge Than We Realized, According To Two Of The Deal’s Architects
JK: The initial meeting in Geneva had a little bit of posturing and some resistance. There had been months of negotiations leading up to that. And we had to keep Congress briefed, we kept Israel briefed. EM: We were asking for a very substantial rol
Oct 16 20162 minutes
Weakness Or Wisdom
BY ONE COMMON reckoning, Barack Obama’s handling of the Syrian civil war will go down as the worst black mark on his record. His most ardent admirers and nemeses alike invoke the now-familiar litany: 400,000 dead and nearly 5 million refugees, whose
Oct 16 20164 minutes
Barack Obama: “I Don’t Ever Want To Get To The Point Where We’re That Comfortable With Killing�?
“I NEVER MADE the claim that I was a pacifist. The speech where I announced my opposition to Iraq, the key tagline was ‘I’m not opposed to all war. I’m opposed to dumb wars.’ I was very explicit about the fact that there are times where we need to de
Oct 10 20162 minutes
The U.S. Has A Weak Hand In Syria—And Russia Knows It
HOW FAST CAN A PEACE DEAL FALL APART? On day one (Sept. 12), a U.S.-Russia-brokered cease-fire went into effect in Syria. By day four, Moscow and Washington were accusing each other of violations. On day five, a U.K.-based NGO was reporting that airs
Oct 10 20167 minutes
The Killing Season Inside Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s War On Drugs
AROUND 11 P.M. ON JULY 25, RESTITUTO Castro received an anonymous text message asking him to leave his house in northern Manila and go to the corner of the MacArthur Highway. Just hours earlier, the new Philippine President, 71-year-old Rodrigo Duter
Oct 10 20163 minutes
The Debate Stage Reveals Character, Preparation And The Candidate Who Is Still A Child
I PREPARED FOR THE FIRST CLINTON-TRUMP DEBATE BY watching Citizen Soldier, a riveting documentary about the Oklahoma Army National Guard in combat in Afghanistan—and by not watching any of the pregame commentary by the talking heads. I wanted to see
Oct 10 20161 minute
What’s Next After The Peace Deal In Colombia
A WAR THAT RAGED FOR OVER 50 years came to an end on Sept. 26 when the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC, signed peace accords in Cartagena. What happens next is crucial to maintaining this moment of reconciliat
Oct 10 201614 minutes
Hacking The Voter
WHAT’S BEHIND RUSSIA’S EFFORT TO INFLUENCE THE U.S. ELECTION
Oct 10 20162 minutes
Shimon Peres Could Change. Can The Israelis And The Palestinians?
THE LIFETIME OF SHIMON PERES, who died on Sept. 28 at age 93, spanned the lifetime of the state of Israel. Born in what is now Belarus, his family moved to Tel Aviv more than a decade before Israel was founded in 1948. He lived on a kibbutz when thos

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