Kathy Gilsinan
She was previously an editor at World Politics Review.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why the U.S. Can’t Quit Saudi Arabia
The suspected murder of a Saudi journalist has exposed cracks in a long-standing partnership.
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Venezuela National Television / AP America Is Not Ready for Exploding Drones
An apparent assassination attempt in Venezuela shows how technology is moving faster than governments can counter it.
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Pool / Reuters America and North Korea Are Having Two Different Conversations
One country’s “productive” talks are another’s “gangsterlike” demands.
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Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters How Russia Tries to Catch Its ‘Criminals’ by Abusing Interpol
Vladimir Putin has once again gamed the system to get an anti-corruption activist arrested in a Western democracy.
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Mohamed Abdullah / Reuters The Terrible Cost of Obama's Failure in Syria
The atrocities keep coming.
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Markus Schreiber / AP Theresa May Gives Putin a Deadline
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May used unusually strong terms to link Russia to the poisoning of a former spy on British soil, but left open the question of what happens next.
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Asmaa Waguih / Reuters The Distinctive Cruelty of Killing Worshipers
A mosque attack that killed more than 300 people in Egypt stands out for its ruthlessness, but not for the sinister targeting of the faithful.
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Issei Kato / Reuters What Does It Mean for North Korea to Fly a Missile Over Japan?
This latest strike may be Pyongyang’s most provocative test this year.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Emirati Ambassador: Qatar Is a Destructive Force in the Region
Yousef al-Otaiba on the Gulf crisis and the future of the Middle East
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Reuters via KCNA What Happens When No One Believes American Threats?
The United States can avoid war with North Korea, but the “fire and fury” episode will still do long-term damage.
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KCNA / Reuters North Korea Answers Trump's Vague Threats With Specific Ones
The unusual detail of the Kim regime’s latest statement on Guam
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters North Korea and the Risks of Miscalculation
As tensions rise in East Asia, they highlight the dangers of Trump’s unpredictability.
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Lee Jin-man / Reuters North Korean Nukes and the Grand International-Relations Experiment in Asia
The scholar Robert Jervis discusses his theory of the security dilemma, and how Trump is testing it.
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Maxim Shemetov / Reuters What Does It Mean to Have 'Repeated Contacts' With Russian Intelligence?
A Russian investigative journalist parses a murky concept.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Former Intel Chief: Community Caught Between 'Scylla and Charybdis' on Trump Dossier
A conversation on intelligence and well-meant incompetence
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Did Putin Direct Russian Hacking? And Other Big Questions
Did Moscow influence the U.S. election? Who else has been hacked? Could the CIA be wrong?
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Andrew Harnik / AP Donald Trump’s Asymmetric War on the Establishment
The logic of policy by tweet
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Michael Sohn / AP Making Sense of ISIS's Berlin Claim
In the absence of other evidence, a social-media post could mean any number of things.
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Umit Bektas / Reuters What Are Turkey and Russia Doing in Syria?
Some background on the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Ankara
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Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters Aleppo Is Falling
How Assad and Russia achieved a major victory at a devastating cost
