Object Lessons

The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is a prelude to an emerging, precarious realignment.

The Path to the Trump Doctrine

From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.

In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.

We need to rebalance power away from executives and back to legislatures.

It is long past time to put an end to them.

With Assad preparing a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold, the United States must offer a path forward.

U.S. policy in Syria has always been about grand strategy—never about what would actually help the people on the ground.

Could Trump’s repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?