The Kill List
I'm still in the Mines of Moria (long-form, long-form, long-form) so I'm a little late on the news. But I did make it through the Times piece on…
Black humor, from Damascus to Homs
Along the Bay of Bengal’s wild tidal basin, the scorpions and crocs can seem relatively harmless.
Charles Taylor may be locked up, but 10 years of peace have improved little for the country's poor.
I'm still in the Mines of Moria (long-form, long-form, long-form) so I'm a little late on the news. But I did make it through the Times piece on…
AP
The past decade has seen American drones and forces push against the borders and sovereign rights of Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
This week opponents of President Obama's prolific use of drone strikes hit the elite-media trifecta. High profile reportage in the New York Times …
Just off the long-haul Shanghai-Newark-DC National route and stumbling into our house. For another time, perhaps even tomorrow: why Newark has become…
mzsites.com
Mayor Wang Zhongbing got a little carried away when his town was awarded a contract to produce steel and iron.
Michael Hirsh
For the first time, there may be some hope for Afghanistan. But Pakistan is intent on crushing it, and U.S. officials are paralyzed in finding a solution.
Apologies for neglecting my Goldblog responsibilities, but I've been traveling through Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Israel, and conducting…
Cairo
Observers, myself included, underestimated both the Muslim Brotherhood and many peoples' desires to return to something approximating the old order.
Reuters
The popular uprisings across the Middle East have found surprising boosters: some right-wing opponents of the two-state solution.
Reuters
Though only 650 cases were recorded last year, the World Health Organization declared the disease an emergency, but its importance goes beyond public health.
Reuters
The report is an example of U.S. unwillingness to acknowledge its role in civilians killed during counterterrorism operations in Yemen, Pakistan, and elsewhere.
Can a "world-class" country wall itself off from the world? A test case might be at hand.
Shadi Hamid, Research Director of the Brookings Institution's Doha Center in Qatar, favors military intervention in Syria by a coalition consisting…
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Citizen-journalists are playing a greater role in showing conflict zones to the world and defining our understanding. What happens when they're wrong?
Pictures are worth lots of words, but sometimes the words are useful too
The NATO summit last week in Chicago somehow managed to avoid completely the issue of just what will happen to the women of Afghanistan when the war…
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports:An Israeli settler shot and wounded a Palestinian man on Saturday in a clash that began when a group of…
The "basket case" of the world economy looks stronger than many others do.
Reuters
What 'Europe Doesn't Need the Euro,' by the firebrand writer Thilo Sarrazin, means for Germany
The "healthy" and "unhealthy" imbalances of the Chinese economy and how they are likely to change.
David H. Freedman on smartphone apps and the perfected self, Mark Bowden on being in the dumb kids' class, James Parker on Glenn Beck, Isaac Chotiner on P. G. Wodehouse, and more
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