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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden walks  to announce U.S. Army General Lloyd Austin as his choice to be Secretary of the Department of Defense
Politics

How to Prepare for a National Security Crisis

No new administration wants unexpected foreign crises to distract it from addressing its domestic priorities. Given the pressing need to manage the…

Paul B. Stares 17 December , 2020
Syrian demonstrators look at a poster bearing the portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Politics

Iran Is in Syria to Stay

Early last week, Iraqi officials announced that an airstrike had killed a commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as he entered Syria…

Ariane M. Tabatabai 17 December , 2020
The Voyager 2 mission control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Science & Technology

The Voyagers Found a Small Surprise in Interstellar Space

The missions that humankind has sent farthest into space, a pair of NASA spacecraft called the Voyagers, are billions of miles from Earth. The last…

Marina Koren 17 December , 2020
A commuter walks along the Thames Path in view of the City of London square mile financial district in London
Business & Economy

What Will Happen to Cities in 2021?

The post-pandemic world approaches. According to some projections, up to half of all Americans could be vaccinated by June, and another 30 percent…

Derek Thompson 17 December , 2020
A female student demonstrates against censorship at Tehran university, after reformist newspapers were closed down
Politics

Iran’s Silencing Strategy

Iranian dissident Ruhallah Zam – a journalist exiled in Paris – was kidnapped and assassinated by the Iranian regime earlier this month. Zam is known…

Hanin Ghaddar 17 December , 2020
Protesters attend a rally in Hong Kong on December 22, 2019 to show support for the Uighur minority in China. (Getty)
Politics

Biden Must Stand Up to China on Human Rights

Raise human rights in meetings with senior Chinese government officials. Speak publicly and clearly about abuses instead of only to diplomats behind…

Sophie Richardson 11 December , 2020
U.S. Army soldiers retrieve their bags after they returned home from a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan
Politics

There Is Only One Way Out of Afghanistan

For more than a decade, every debate about U.S. policy in Afghanistan has focused narrowly on the number of troops to send or withdraw. U.S…

Barnett R. Rubin 11 December , 2020
San Francisco Orange Sky during Fire Season
Business & Economy

Photography Has Gotten Climate Change Wrong from the Start

I knew something was wrong the minute I woke up. OnSeptember 9, the sky was still dark at7:15 a.m.Eventually it revealed a deep-orange light, darker…

Kim Beil 11 December , 2020
Djibouti president Ismail Omar Guelleh walks during an official military welcome ceremony
Politics

Djibouti, the "Guardian Eye" of Bab al-Mandab

Despite a population of just over a millioninhabitants and an area of 23,000 square kilometres, Djibouti, situated on the Bab al-Mandab Strait, one…

Ahmed Madbouly 11 December , 2020
The Fraught Politics Facing Biden’s Foreign Policy
Politics

The Fraught Politics Facing Biden’s Foreign Policy

For 18 months,Joe Bidenwas able to contrast his foreign policy with Donald Trump’s by painting in broad brushstrokes. He was in favour of alliances;…

Thomas Wright 04 December , 2020
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Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China

02 May 2026

Even when appeals to open the Hormuz Strait come from a close ally like Beijing, they fall on deaf ears in Tehran. But hope is not yet lost.

Xiaotong Yang
Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil

04 May 2026

Airspace closures, rising fuel costs, shifting flight maps and delayed aircraft deliveries have repriced flights around the world, with some travel routes hit worse than others

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
A man holds a flag featuring the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, at a rally in Tehran on 29 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Real Iran splits and the myth of division

04 May 2026

The argument is over the price and presentation, not the basic instinct to preserve the system

Alex Vatanka
A Lebanese guard stands in front of  Magen Abraham, the last Jewish synagogue in Lebanon at Wadi Abou Jmil, Beirut's former Jewish neighbourhood, in the war-devastated city centre. JOSEPH BARRAK / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

New book recalls Beirut’s once-vibrant Jewish quarter

01 May 2026

Veteran Lebanese journalist Nada Abdelsamad transports readers back to the time when Beirut's Jewish quarter, known at the time as Wadi al-Yahud, was thriving

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
Turkish fighter jets fly over a warship in Kyrenia, in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. AFP
Politics

How the Iran war changed Türkiye’s security calculus

05 May 2026

Ankara's national security priority is no longer Kurds or Gülenists, but Israel. Likewise, in Tel Aviv, Türkiye is increasingly seen as a future Israeli adversary. Both are preparing accordingly

Rustum Mahmud

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