Even a superpower can’t maintain dominance in every domain and also effectively address big-ticket items like climate change.
Obama’s Last National Security Strategy
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Middle East & North Africa
Once and for All, Does Islam Play Too Fast and Loose With Violence?
Hannah Gais holds that Islam is just a handy tool that militants use to battle oppression.
Drone Strikes and the Sanitization of Violence
As the U.S. drone war flares up again in Yemen, a distressingly familiar pattern is playing out.
5 Reasons Congress Should Reject Obama’s ISIS War
The Obama administration wants a rubber stamp on its unwise, unlimited, and unauthorized new war in the Middle East. It shouldn’t get it.
ISIS Unites the World
There’s no better time for Sunni and Shia to sit down together and address not just ISIS but the injustice, intolerance, and inequality that birthed it.
Argentina’s Tangled Web
The death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was certainly suspicious. But that doesn’t prove a thing about his charges against Iran.
The Islamic State’s Biggest Crime May Be Its Braggadocio
The United States is actually a world leader in the use of incendiary devices, but, unlike the Islamic State, it keeps it on the down low.
The Confederalists: A Kurdish Movement Bolsters Women and Bashes the West
The flip side to the Islamic State’s brutal invasions has been a trans-border unification of Kurdish fighters and refugees.
The Islamic State Singled Out Jordanian Pilot as Symbol of Air War Against It
Apparently, the Islamic State seeks to execute pilots as retaliation for their bombing missions.
Hollywood’s ‘Furriner’ Problem
In films like American Sniper and The Interview, Americans are the heroes and “furriners” are the targets: an undifferentiated group of people so alien that they’re practically subhuman.