The Endgame in Syria
The Strategy That Dares Not Speak Its Name

Obama needs Putin’s help in Syria more than Putin needs Obama’s.

Going out on Top
Speaker Boehner’s Nunc Dimittis

Boehner ascends to a higher, happier—and much better-paying—realm.

The European Immigration Crisis
Turkey Names Its Price on Refugees

If Turkey is going to help preempt the flow, it wants to see some dough—and a freer hand in Syria.

The Pope and the Information Age
Google, Apple, Facebook…and the Vatican

How the Risorgimento, completed 145 years ago this week, left the Vatican two centuries ahead of the times.

Strategery
Kerry: We Swear We Know What We’re Doing in Syria

State Department rebuts Russian claims that the U.S. is ready to strike a deal on Syria that leaves Assad in place.

Russia & Islam
Putin Opens Moscow’s Newest, Biggest Mosque

The move suggests an embrace of “Russian Islam” for domestic purposes and foreign policy PR.

An Italian immigrant family on board a ferry from the docks to Ellis Island, New York. (Photo by Lewis W Hine/Getty Images)
Europe's Great Wave
Europe Should Look to the Ellis Island Model

The historical “best practice” for accepting large numbers of immigrants, Ellis Island also illustrates the scale of the challenge facing Europe.

It's Not about the Jews
Iran Deal Deeply Unpopular in New York

Quinnipiac survey reflects the unpopularity of the president’s key initiative in a deep blue state. And it’s not why some would think.

The Endgame in Syria
Flabbergasted Again

Iran and Russia are coordinating on Syria, while the White House is caught flat-footed.

The Syria Training Follies
70 New U.S.-Trained Fighters Enter Syria—And Are Detained

The training program follies illustrate that the failures of the Obama Administration in foreign policy have been the inevitable product of the Administration’s making it up as it goes along.

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