No risk it will happen soon

8 years ago

The High Negotiations Commission (HNC), which represents the non-extremist Syrian revolution and opposition forces in UN-hosted talks to bring an…

Talk but little progress

8 years ago

The Middle East Institute published my brief on the G20 summit yesterday:  The weekend’s G20 meeting in peaceful and prosperous Hangzhou, China…

Brains for peace

8 years ago

Ross Hurwitz, a second year SAIS student, writes:  Science has given the world heretofore unimagined access to the subconscious workings…

No matter how many black churches

8 years ago

Today is Labor Day in the U.S. We don't commemorate it May 1 like the rest of the world. Why…

What Kosovo needs

8 years ago

Fitim Gashi of Pristina daily Koha Ditore asked some questions last week. I replied:  Q: Kosovo is facing numerous discontents…

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s quandaries

8 years ago

I did a lengthy interview this week with Bosnian Federation Radio on Bosnia's current quandaries. Here it is in English:…

Painful

8 years ago

Yesterday Donald Trump lied about what Mexican President Peña Nieto said to him about paying for the border wall (Clinton…

Dear Mr. President,

8 years ago

Secretary Kerry last week failed to reach agreement with Moscow on coordinating attacks on extremists in Syria. Even his effort to reinstate…

Here is why we don’t need a wall

8 years ago

While Donald Trump has let up on deporting millions of people out of the US, he continues to press for…

Believing in peace in Colombia

8 years ago

A SAIS alum living in Bogotá writes:  While the world rejoices that the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces…