Japan’s war hawks and imperial apologists are alienating the country’s allies and making a confrontation with its rivals more likely.
Japan Is Antagonizing Everyone
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North America
Solving Nuclear Base Foul-ups and National Laboratory Mismanagement the Easy Way
We’re investing too much money and patriotic capital in trying to prop up nuclear weapons, which are arguably obsolete anyway.
The Dance of Superpowers
Can China and the United States pivot without crashing into each other?
U.S. Digs Its Heels in on Iran Sanctions
The U.S. has switched its intransigence toward Iran from enrichment capacity to sanctions.
What a GOP Senate Means for Obama’s Foreign Policy
2015 could yet see some significant developments—at least on issues where the White House and GOP are aligned.
Kobane: Hunger Strikes and Air Strikes
A former Syrian Kurdish MP is hunger striking in Washington for action in Kobane.
The Big Chill: Tensions in the Arctic
As the climate warms and the ice melts, the Arctic could become the next great theater of global cooperation—or a battlefield.
The Wall
Few images from the last days of the Cold War are as enduring in the West as the fall of the Berlin Wall. But in Central and Eastern Europe, a more complex picture emerges.
The Bad News about Burma
Backsliding reforms, attacks on civilians, and evidence of war crimes are among the troubling reports just ahead of President Obama’s visit to Burma.
Iraq: What Could Possibly Go Right?
Four Months into Iraq War 3.0, the cracks are showing — on the battlefield and at the Pentagon.