Barack Obama continues to shake up the world with his new ideas, demonstrating himself again among the more creative and bold leaders the world has […]

My talk at the New America Foundation on the need for a new Western relationship with the Muslim world, in connection with my new book, […]

Turkey relented on Saturday and agreed to allow Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark, to become head of NATO if a Turkish assistant was […]

Adam L. Silverman writes in a guest editorial for IC: On 1 April 2009 Juan Cole briefly wrote about the events surrounding the arrest of […]

The NATO summit is off to a shaky start. It was supposed to elect a new leader, and the Obama administration backed Danish Prime Minister […]

1. Exaggerating the threat. An Afghan army foot patrol was attacked by guerrillas in Helmand Province on Wednesday, according to AP. US and Afghan soldiers […]

Avigdor Lieberman, the Moldovan night club bouncer, is now foreign minister of Israel. The world has had a lot of fun laughing at the pronouncements […]

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Sadr Movement led by Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr is facing the possibility of internal factionalism, among imprisoned members and among […]

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould write in a guest op-ed for IC: “Rebuilding Afghanistan is the most cynically pro-American thing you could do anywhere in […]