Kathy Gilsinan
She was previously an editor at World Politics Review.
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Michael Sohn / AP The Trump Administration Can’t Get a United Front Against Iran
But the Warsaw conference did bring together Gulf Arabs and Israel against their common enemy.
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters Trump’s Affinity for Strongmen Has a Big Exception
Trump campaigned against overseas interventions, and he has a reputation for being friendly with some authoritarian rulers. Now he wants Venezuela’s Maduro gone.
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Evan Vucci / AP In 1995, the U.S. Declared a State of Emergency. It Never Ended.
Trump recently renewed the terrorism state of emergency, which is just one of roughly 30 ongoing national emergencies in the U.S.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters America Still Doesn’t Know What to Do With Terrorism Suspects
Some pre-9/11 plotters have not yet been brought to justice, even as a new generation of suspects is taking their place.
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Mark Meyer / Reuters America Scrambles to Catch Up With Chinese and Russian Weapons
Trump’s new missile-defense strategy adds up to an effort to solve a political problem with expensive hardware.
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Spc. Zoe Garbarino / U.S. Army via AP The Deadliest Day for the U.S. in Syria
Trump says ISIS is defeated, but an Islamic State attack in Syria on Wednesday killed four Americans.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty The Buck Stops Over There
The president loves splashy displays of military might. But when something goes wrong, he blames his generals.
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Hussein Malla / AP Trump Is Rushing the Syria Withdrawal—And That Could Backfire
America’s retreat from Syria began Friday despite bipartisan opposition and conflicting goalposts from top officials.
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Jason Reed / Reuters There’s No Real System to Counter Rogue Drones
As flying robots proliferate, there’s a growing risk of accident or attack. And the U.S. is still a long way from being prepared.
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Khaled Abdullah / Reuters The Senate Thinks It Can Change the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
In a historic rebuke of the Trump administration’s Saudi policy, senators voted to end U.S. support for the Yemen war, then unanimously held Saudi Arabia’s crown prince responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
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Jorge Duenes / Reuters Trump Keeps Invoking Terrorism to Get His Border Wall
His rhetoric diverges from that of previous post-9/11 administrations, which took care to not implicate all Muslims or all immigrants.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Coming Senate Showdown Over Saudi Arabia
Republican senators positioned themselves against the White House after the CIA director testified about Jamal Khashoggi’s death.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Khashoggi Tape and the Limits of ‘Raw’ Intelligence
There’s a logic to John Bolton’s refusal to listen.
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Abdul Jabbar Zeyad / Reuters Life in Yemen Is Sophie's Choice
The world’s worst humanitarian crisis keeps getting worse, and Yemeni civilians have no good options.
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Toby Melville / Reuters In Northern Ireland, Vigilante Violence Keeps Terrorizing Communities
Twenty years after the end of the nation's civil war, real peace is still far off.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters For Trump, the Truth About Jamal Khashoggi Is Beside the Point
The White House’s Tuesday statement was striking for its implication that, whatever the truth of the crown prince’s involvement, it didn’t really matter.
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Jon Nazca / Reuters The Radical Evolution of WikiLeaks
While the revelation of an apparent indictment against Julian Assange sets an ominous precedent for news organizations, it also serves as a reminder of his group’s stark transformation.
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WSVN Ch. 7 via Reuters It Took 17 Years to Catch the Unabomber, but 5 Days to Find Cesar Sayoc
Law enforcement has better tools available now than when Ted Kaczynski was caught in 1996. But Kaczynski was also much more sophisticated than the latest mail bomber.
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Rodi Said / Reuters An American Accused of Joining ISIS Is Free, and a Bigger Story Is Beginning
The U.S. military quietly released “John Doe” last week after holding him in detention in Iraq for 13 months, with no charges.
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Busà Photography / Getty If Terrorists Launch a Major Cyberattack, We Won’t See It Coming
National-security experts have been warning of terrorist cyberattacks for 15 years. Why hasn’t one happened yet?
