News Analysis
Privacy in the Tech Age
Apple Takes a Hard Line

Tim Cook sets off the most epic showdown yet in post-Snowden tech privacy wars.

Game of Thrones: Thailand Edition
Thailand’s Pivot to China Continues

It’s clear that Thailand sees Beijing as a viable alternative to the United States and its allies.

Crude Economics
Savvy Saudis Making Iran the Enemy of OPEC

Iran is the biggest obstacle to a proposed petrostate production freeze. Is this by Saudi design?

After the Iran Deal
Iranian Defense Minister Goes To Russia

Iran starts talk of inking arms deals with Russia—not quite the behavior of a responsible status quo power in the Middle East.

campus culture wars
Tennessee State Legislature Takes On Campus PC

Even as campus politics are moving left, state politics are moving right. That’s bad news for PC activists in the long run.

Foreign Policy Adrift
Beijing Sends Missiles to the South China Sea

The meltdown of American resolve and strategic coherence in the Middle East has consequences around the world.

Christians in the Middle East
The Obama Administration and the Question of Genocide

When you use the word, you have a legal obligation to do something about the reality.

Enviro-Mental
Anti-GMO Nutjobbery Risks “Food Crisis” in the Philippines

Eco-activists are close to turning the Philippines from a GMO trailblazer into another Luddite denier.

Elections 2016
Ghost of Iraq Still Haunts the GOP

Trump has reopened a painful wound in the GOP.

The European Immigration Crisis
Eastern Europe Puts Pressure on Athens, Berlin

Visegrad countries propose immigration “Plan B.”

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