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April 3, 2015

United States
Yemen: The Worst Reason for War

The excellent New York Times journalists David K. Kirkpatrick and Kareem Fahim have an article tacking stock of the nine-day old Saudi-led air campaign against Houthi and Houthi-affiliated fighting f…

Yemen Airstrikes

June 4, 2012

Egypt
The Mubarak Trial: Justice and Revenge Denied

The verdicts in the trial of the Mubaraks, former Interior Minister Habeeb al Adly, and eleven senior Ministry of Interior officials came in on Saturday morning and like clockwork protesters are out …

Mubarak Cage Cropped

December 27, 2016

Middle East and North Africa
The United Nations Resolution on Israel

Since the adoption last week the Security Council resolution on Israel, I’ve had my say in The Weekly Standard and The Washington Post condemning the Obama administration’s decision to allow the reso…

July 26, 2012

Guest Post: Indirect Intervention—Why and When

Here is a guest blog by my colleague Mark P. Lagon, adjunct senior fellow for human rights at the Council, as well as international relations and security chair at Georgetown University’s Master of S…

Residents attend the funeral of a sergeant whom defected to join the Free Syrian Army on the outskirts of Idlib province

September 10, 2012

Infrastructure
To Build America's Future, Compete Aggressively For Investment

I will be traveling to Detroit this week to speak on a panel at the Techonomy conference, which is an annual event normally held in Arizona. It's a gutsy decision by the organizers to shine the spotl…

The skyline of Detroit (Rebecca Cook/Courtesy Reuters).