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March 23, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Counterterrorism Policies, and Tobacco Mortality

Report of the Pakistani Parliamentary Committee on National Security on Guidelines for Revised Terms of Engagement with USA/NATO/ISAF, March 2012. The government needs to ensure that the princi…

CIA Lobby
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

February 6, 2014

United States
This Week: Syria’s Fighting, Iran’s Windfall, and Iraq’s Violence

Significant Developments Syria. The United Nations and Syria agreed today to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged old city of Homs, and to allow women and children safe passage out. The agreemen…

A member of Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra mans a checkpoint on the border crossing between Syria and Jordan, which they claim to have taken control of, in Daraa December 26, 2013 (Khassawneh/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

February 4, 2019

Election 2020
Meet John Delaney, Democratic Presidential Candidate

Update: John Delaney announced on January 31, 2020, that he was ending his campaign. Someone had to be first. When it comes to the 2020 presidential campaign, that person is John Delaney. He’s cer…

John Delaney 2020
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

May 18, 2009

Financial Markets
Lost prestige

"Banking is the industry that failed. Banks are meant to allocate capital to businesses and consumers efficiently; instead, they ladled credit to anyone who wanted it. Banks are supposed to make mo…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

April 7, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: WMDs, Libya, and Drone Strikes in Yemen

Peter Cynkar, “Opinion Briefing: Mexico’s Drug War,” Gallup, April 4, 2012. Mexicans personally feel less safe in their own neighborhoods in 2011 than they did at the onset of the drug war. Whi…

Yemen pointing
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action