She was previously an editor at World Politics Review.
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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
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Darren Ornitz / Reuters Is It Too Late to Save the Two-State Solution?
Secretary of State John Kerry thinks there’s still time—but the process is moving in the wrong direction.
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Lawrence Jackson / White House / Handout via ... Five Years in a Cuban Prison
Alan Gross reflects on Fidel Castro’s legacy.
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Reuters How Did Fidel Castro Hold On to Cuba for So Long?
The combination of geography, charisma, and authoritarianism that helped the revolutionary outlast 10 American presidents
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The Myth of the 'Female' Foreign Policy, Cont'd
The Atlantic recently did a special project on women in leadership, for which I contributed a modest reflection on women…
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Arne Niklas Jansson / Wikimedia Big in Europe: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Though Pastafarianism was founded to critique organized religion, it’s now an organized movement.
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Reflections on What 9/11 Meant in Afghanistan
Mohammad Sayed Madadi is currently getting a master’s degree at Stanford. But he spent part of his childhood under the…
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Watching 9/11 From Around the World
One reader, Teresa Poppelwell, was working with the UN in Herat, in western Afghanistan, on September 11, 2001, specifically “in…
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Watching 9/11 From Across the Country
A reader in California, Beth Anderson, was watching news coverage of the attacks on September 11, 2001, and thought of…
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9/11 in the Nation's Capital
“People remember the Twin Towers,” writes Stephen, a reader in Illinois. “But I remember the Pentagon.” Update from…
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At the Center of the Devastation
Everyone seems have their own story of the 9/11 attacks, and I recently asked readers to share theirs to…
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Where Were You on September 11, 2001?
I was nowhere near New York or D.C. on September 11, 2001. I was a senior in high school…
