Kathy Gilsinan
She was previously an editor at World Politics Review.
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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?
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty The Pittsburgh Gunman Embraced Conspiracy Theories. He’s Not the First.
“The only thing that really does change is who that cabal of shadow elites are.”
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Johnny Louis / Getty Why the Mail Bomber Wasn’t Charged With Terrorism
For domestic actors without international connections, the First Amendment and other civil-liberties protections make it tough to do so.
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Kevin Coombs / Reuters If the Pipe-Bomb Mailings Aren’t Terrorism, What Is?
There is no consensus—in academia, law, or common usage—on when an attack is more than just a crime.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters When the Mail Is Used to Stoke Panic
Officials have intercepted explosive items bound for an array of high-profile targets ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
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Leah Millis / Reuters From ‘Rogue Killers’ to ‘Worst Cover-Up’: Trump’s Evolving Rhetoric on Khashoggi
President Trump was initially reluctant to link the death of Jamal Khashoggi to the Saudi government. That now appears to be changing.
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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.
