latest

Government Shutdown Threatens Key U.S. Initiative in Pacific

Chaos in Congress jeopardizes Biden’s efforts to re-up ties with Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands.

Report

Robbie Gramer

Iran Is Doubling Down on Headscarves

One year after an uprising over women’s rights, the government has passed a harsh new hijab law.

Analysis

Sina Toossi

Cultural Decoupling From China Is Not the Answer

Beijing’s censorship has pernicious effects on artists and educational institutions—but abandoning all cultural ties would do more harm than good.

Argument

Suzanne Nossel

How the U.S. Created Its Own Reality

Historian Heather Cox Richardson charts the roots of 21st-century disinformation—and how American democracy began to falter.

Excerpt

Heather Cox Richardson

David Ottaway

David Ottaway is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former Washington Post Middle East correspondent.

Articles by David Ottaway

Springtime in Sudan

Argument

David Ottaway

November 22, 2011, 10:31 PM

Uncle Sam and the Saudi Split

Argument

David Ottaway

September 23, 2011, 2:27 PM

Return to staff list

Loading graphics

Government Shutdown Threatens Key U.S. Initiative in Pacific

Iran Is Doubling Down on Headscarves

Cultural Decoupling From China Is Not the Answer

How the U.S. Created Its Own Reality

David Ottaway

Springtime in Sudan

Uncle Sam and the Saudi Split

Latest

Government Shutdown Threatens Key U.S. Initiative in Pacific

Iran Is Doubling Down on Headscarves

Cultural Decoupling From China Is Not the Answer

How the U.S. Created Its Own Reality

Biden Boosts Pacific Diplomacy

David Ottaway

Springtime in Sudan

Uncle Sam and the Saudi Split

Latest

Government Shutdown Threatens Key U.S. Initiative in Pacific

Iran Is Doubling Down on Headscarves

Cultural Decoupling From China Is Not the Answer

How the U.S. Created Its Own Reality

Biden Boosts Pacific Diplomacy

Trending