The Misguided Logic of Keeping Calm in the Face of Terror
No, chances are you won’t die in a terrorist attack. But citing statistics about calculated horror misses the point.
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David Bosco
Rosa Brooks
Thanassis Cambanis
Elizabeth Dickinson
Laurie Garrett
Kim Ghattas
Julia Ioffe
Leela Jacinto
Whitney Kassel
Jeffrey Lewis
Aaron David Miller
Suzanne Nossel
Thomas E. Ricks
David Rothkopf
Kori Schake
Emile Simpson
James Stavridis
Bruce Stokes
James Traub
Stephen M. Walt
Lauren Wolfe
Michela Wrong
Micah Zenko
Britain’s Declaration of Independence From Reality
There’s nothing to celebrate in the United Kingdom’s sovereign decision to do itself irreparable harm.
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Welcome to the Fantasy Island of Little England
The pro-Brexit campaign is fudging numbers, reimagining history, and undermining the Great British tradition of common sense.
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How the Republican Foreign Policy Elites Misdiagnosed Trumpism
Mainstream foreign policy experts have no fix for blue-collar Americans enraged at the failures of the liberal world order.
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This is How the Liberal World Order Ends
Not with a bang, but with a pair of defiant anti-establishment presidential candidates.
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The Islamic State of Afghanistan
With the caliphate growing across Central Asia, it's time to make a deal with the Taliban -- the enemy we know.
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The Cold Realism of the Post-Paris War on Terror
The time for supporting democratic regime change across the Muslim world is over. It's accept Assad and his like, or embrace the chaos.
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Why Obama Should Just Let Putin Have the Mess in Syria
One way or another, the war in Syria will remain a hopeless mess -- best we leave it to Moscow.
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Obama’s Mission in Kenya
The president has tough task as he visits East Africa. He can’t revive British colonialism, but he must provide an alternative to Chinese cynicism.
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Why We Failed to Win a Decisive Victory in Afghanistan
Shifting political allegiances, not smashing enemies, should have been the goal. And that holds true for the campaign against the Islamic State as well.
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About Emile Simpson
Emile Simpson is the author of War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics and served in the British Army from 2006 to 2012 as an infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles.
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