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Nov 28 20161 minute
Trump’s Too-Tidy Plan To Defeat Islamic State
His in-and-out military solution will not be quick, and may leave the area in greater chaos
Nov 14 20161 minute
South Korea’s Familial Presidential Family Scandal
THERE ARE POLITICAL SCANDALS, THERE are odd political scandals, and then there’s whatever is happening in South Korea. The controversy centers on the murky relationship between President Park Geun-hye and an old friend named Choi Soon-sil. Park is ac
Nov 14 20161 minute
Lebanon’s New Leader Aims To Keep ‘Regional Fires’ At Bay
JARED MALSIN LEBANON’S PARLIAMENT ELECTED RETIRED general Michel Aoun as President on Oct. 31, ending a 29-month political stalemate during which the country had no head of state. Aoun’s ascension fills a vacuum but provides few long-term answers as
Nov 7 201610 minutes
Iraq Takes On Isis
The battle for Mosul begins—and fractured Iraqi forces will have to pay for every inch
Nov 7 20163 minutes
Moscow Confidential: Private Jets For Dogs
A dissident dishes dirt with the help of tipsters in high places | “Everyone in this arena is in a state of conflict�?
Nov 7 20164 minutes
How Do You Say Déjà Vu In Chinese?
Beijing is heading down a questionable path we’ve seen before: Japan’s
Oct 31 20162 minutes
Even Headstrong Generals Must Answer To Someone
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR CERTAINLY HAD A WAY with Commanders in Chief. Long before he ran afoul of Harry Truman near the end of the Korean War, the self-glorifying Army general was ignoring the orders of President Herbert Hoover. As a young Army chief of st
Oct 31 20163 minutes
Crimea Welcomes A Flood Of Putin Patriots
For Russians, the thrill of annexation has yet to wear off | “Drop whatever you’re doing … and move to Crimea�?
Oct 31 20162 minutes
How To Stay Friends With The Philippines
The U.S. must keep cool amid outbursts by the hotheaded president of its longtime ally
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
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
Jun 27 20165 minutes
Caught In The Middle Of A Civil War Between Turkey And Its Kurds
AFTER ZERDA AND YOLDAS, A KURDISH COUPLE IN THEIR 30s from Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, married about 15 years ago, they bought a parcel of land from relatives in the town’s old city, across the street from a school. The land contained a small
Jun 27 20161 minute
American Slaves Emancipated Themselves
TO MANY AMERICANS, THE END OF SLAVERY is synonymous with Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. But that’s hardly the whole story. And it discounts the agency of thousands of slaves who voted with their feet for freedom.
Jun 27 20167 minutes
The Hollow Alliance
The historic concord between the U.S. and Europe made the West safe and rich. Now it’s in danger of collapse
Jun 20 20162 minutes
How To Be Free
In Free State of Jones, Gugu Mbatha-Raw forges unity for a common cause
Jun 13 20161 minute
Iraq Faces Major Challenges In The Fight For Fallujah
JARED MALSIN The Iraqi military and its allied militias are engaged in intense fighting on the edges of Fallujah in an effort to reclaim the city from ISIS militants. The offensive is a critical test for Iraq’s disparate armed forces in the broader
Jun 13 20161 minute
The Next Frontier For Migrants Is An Even More Dangerous One
JUSTIN WORLAND ON MAY 25, AN ITALIAN NAVAL vessel approached a blue boat in the Mediterranean Sea. Crowding the deck were more than 500 passengers, each of whom had paid smugglers for passage from the northern coast of Africa to the southern coast o
Jun 6 20163 minutes
Obama At War And Peace In The Middle East And Asia
WHEN THE TALIBAN’S LEADER, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, crossed the border from Iran into Pakistan on May 21 in a beat-up white Toyota sedan, President Barack Obama was busy in Washington preparing for a weeklong trip to Vietnam and Japan. But the Presiden

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