Middle East
Why ‘we’ got Turkey wrong (and China. And Russia. And Iraq)
Another foreign policy item bites the dust
How Benjamin Netanyahu made the most of the Trump era
The two share an uncanny ability to connect on almost a metaphysical level with the fears and resentments of their voters.
Who gave Mahmoud Ahmedinejad the moral highground?
He tweets about millionaire American athletes while Tehran burns.
Abandoning Islam for a life in porn
Yasmeena Ali fled the Taliban as a child — now she’s an adult film star.
When it comes to Iran, Trump is surprisingly impotent
Post-Vietnam, the US has acted militarily like the proverbial school-yard bully, picking fights only with the weaklings who can’t fight back.
Boris Johnson: Why we sent the jihadi Beatles for trial in America
The diary of the former British Foreign Secretary.
Donald Trump is going full neocon
The president who campaigned on extricating Washington from wars in the Middle East seems intent on starting a fresh one.
Trump escalates the anti-Iran rhetoric. But why now?
If we learned anything from the so-called Arab Spring, it’s that the victors in that part of the world are never the pro-Western ones we bet on.
