“It is hard to believe, but there are worse shortages in Venezuela than there are in Syria.”

The anti-ISIS airstrikes may be building more coalitions than the one we intended.

If you think Saddam’s abandoned chemical weapons were trouble, what will happen when Assad’s fall into the wrong hands?

Erdogan uses the current crisis to strip protections of criminal defendants out of Turkish law.

Turkey starts bombing runs—on its own Kurds, at home. Meanwhile, its inaction in Syria is beginning to look more Machiavellian by the day.

One example from Europe suggests yes—if you’re willing to save, scrutinize, and countenance some heated debate between workers and retirees.

Kurdish frustration at the Turkish government’s lack of action against ISIS is boiling over into the streets of Germany, where riot police report feeling trapped in a “proxy war.”

UKIP’s near-upset of Labor is in many ways more telling than its victory in Clacton. But the British elite has a long history of co-opting its malcontents.

India and Pakistan have been trading fire on the border for a week. Small conflicts like this one are horrible for those caught in the shelling, but they also serve the interests of key domestic constituencies in both Pakistan and India.

Unrest shows the limits of Erdogan’s room for maneuver.