Syria’s Interlocking Conflicts

Jonathan_Spyer

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces last Friday announced the commencement of an operation to conquer the northern Syrian city of Raqqa.

America’s Know-Nothing Diplomacy

Daniel Pipes

Through a century, American presidents and other leaders celebrate Mark Twain’s “innocents abroad” mentality that Gary Johnson has just regurgitated.

US Elections as a Symptom of Western Fracture

Ben-Dror_Yemini

Western democracies are struggling with questions of national identity, solidarity, a shared ethos, the place of religion, etc. In European countries, the battle is between an old, corrupt and rotten establishment and populist and demagogic politics. In other words: Clinton vs. Trump.

2020

Ira Sharkansky

Analysts used to say that the Obama administration was the nastiest in terms of inter-party conflict.