List of United States articles
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Iranians show ink-stained fingers after casting their ballots on May 19. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images) Iran’s Not a Totally Fake Democracy, Study Says
A new survey shows a country with a constrained but active body politic, contrary to plenty of D.C. conventional wisdom.
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Then Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin kisses a baby outside St. Petersburg on May 29, 2010. (Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images) Western Sanctions Are Shrinking Russia’s Population
Vladimir Putin is fond of claiming that demographics are destiny – which may be why he’s so angry about his country’s financial straitjacket.
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Iraqi forces drive towards Kurdish Peshmerga positions on Oct. 15 on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images) America Is in Denial About Iraq
The war in Iraq won’t end as long as the United States avoids deciding what it wants there.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks on during the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) Armageddon by Accident
Trump and Kim’s brinkmanship raises the danger of an accidental conflict on the Korean Peninsula.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Oct. 7. (AFP photo/KCNA via KNS/Getty Images) Trump Should Focus on Deterring North Korea
Negotiations and the use of force both hold little promise.
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A distraught Rohingya boy seeks handouts near the Balukali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on Sept. 20. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) For Years, U.N. Was Warned of Threat to Rohingya in Myanmar
Myanmar’s Muslim crackdown “has been decades in the making.”
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Iraq military vehicles parked outside of Kirkuk, Iraq, on Oct. 13. (Marwan Ibrahim/AFP/Getty Images) Last-Minute Talks Calm Iraqi, Kurdish Troops Facing Off Over Kirkuk
Frantic negotiations headed off a confrontation, but tensions are rising in the region.
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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Oct. 13. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) The Slippery ‘Spirit’ of Nixing the Iran Deal
Obama's JCPOA terms actually give the White House sound legal footing for decertification. But now Trump owns the consequences.
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, right, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 18. (Kevin Hagen/Getty Images) Trump Has an Iran Strategy — But It Will Be Very Tough to Pull Off
The Trump administration’s game plan has a certain logic, but executing it will be the most difficult diplomatic gambit his team has attempted thus far.
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Stephanie Smith, human cannonball at the Royal Melbourne Show, 2005. (WIkimedia Commons) Firings, reliefs, and military misdeeds: The hits just keep on coming, for some reason
This month's hall of shame.
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Traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls depicting Russia's President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and then- U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on sale at a gift shop in central Moscow on Nov. 8, 2016. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images) Russia Has Invented Social Media Blitzkrieg
And it’s time that America learns to defend itself.
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A High Energy Laser Mobile Test (U.S. Army) Army, Defense Companies Making Renewed Push for Laser Weapons
Shooting down drones is touted as a major goal.
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Refugees arriving from the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios in 2016. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images) The Trump Administration Wants Refugees to Fit In or Stay Out
An obscure new policy would give priority to refugees who seem like they might “assimilate.”
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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) America Will Always Lose Russia’s Tit-for-Tat Spy Games
In the asymmetric warfare of espionage, playing fair means Moscow wins.
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Anti-separatist Catalans at a protest in Barcelona on Spain's National Day in 2012. (David Ramos/Getty Images) Catalonia Leaving Spain Would Be Like Illinois Leaving the United States
In Spain's hour of trial, it deserves full U.S. support.
