It’s probably a matter of when, not if, al-Qaeda in Yemen successfully strikes the U.S. Yet the drone attacks currently keeping the organization at bay are also helping recruit more terrorists. Can you say “no-win situation”?
international
Posted inBooks, Magazine, May/June 2012, Politics
Peaced Out
Peter Beinart warns that American Jews must refocus on the democratic and humanitarian principles of Zionism before Israel becomes simply another despotic Middle Eastern state.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, May/June 2011, Politics
Arab Springboard
American democracy promotion didn’t spark the Arab uprisings, but a shared hatred of our Middle East policies sure helped them spread.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, March/April 2012
Thinking Out Loud
An oral history of the twentieth century, dictated on his deathbed, shows that Tony Judt was, to the end, the consummate public intellectual.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, March/April 2012
Not a Drop to Drink
How water scarcity will soon be Asia’s defining crisis.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2012
We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran
Fears of a bomb in Tehran’s hands are overhyped, and a war to prevent it would be a disaster.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2012
Good News First, Bad News Never
How the Peace Corps believes its own PR, looks past its mistakes, and shafts volunteers in the process.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2012
The Crackdown
How the United States looked the other way while Bahrain crushed the Arab Spring’s most ill-fated uprising.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2012, Magazine
The Last Days of Hugh Trevor-Roper
How a historian who reveled in destroying the reputations of others ruined his own.
Posted inBooks, Government, January/February 2012, Magazine
The Spy Who Came In from the Heat
How an idealistic spy in Asia challenged the American way of war, and what his tragedy teaches us about finding allies today.
