US-Cuba Rapprochement
Castros: Give Us Gitmo or No Normalization

It’s not in Havana’s interest for the negotiations to move too quickly.

Without a Plan
Obama’s ISIS Policy Has Critics in High Places

General Mattis and former DIA Chief Lt. General Flynn were among those who said the Administration lacks a strategy.

Go Big or Go Home
America’s Systemic Failure in Syria

Why did it take the US four months to clear a town the size of Biloxi, MS?

Great Power Series
House of the Rising Saud

It’s not just TAI that’s seeing it anymore.

After the Greek Elections
Will Greece Turn To Russia?

The next shoe to drop after the Greek election may be pointing in an eastward direction.

The Greek Election
Hell Is Other European Central Bankers

The overall situation in the aftermath of the Greek elections is a combination of a classical tragedy and Sartre’s No Exit.

ISIS' Foreign Fighters
Elite French Soldiers Join ISIS’s Ranks

About ten French former soldiers, including some from elite units, have joined the jihadis.

Saudi Security Fears
The Saudi Crackdown and Obama’s Iran Policy

Where Americans see unjustifiable rights violations, Saudis see emergency measures that America made necessary.

Tut Tut
Incompetence on a Pharaonic Scale

The Egyptian Museum’s inability to take care of the King Tut relics points to a larger dysfunction.

Negotiations Obama Style
An Unequal Truce

While Obama talks peace, Iranian allies everywhere press forward.

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