A pall was cast over the summit of Mercosur nations in Uruguay this week when Iván Heyn, Argentina’s Undersecretary for Foreign Trade, was found dead, hanged with a belt in his Montevideo hotel room. Heyn, only 34, was a …
Piers Pressure: U.K. Hacking Inquiry Raises Fresh Questions for CNN’s Morgan
Series of Bombings Rocks Baghdad
A wave of attacks kills dozens
Baghdad Bloodbath Threatens Sectarian Chaos in Iraq: Will Iran Stoke or Douse the Fires?
A series of deadly bombings across Baghdad that killed at least 63 people and wounded hundreds on Thursday underscored the political and security peril facing Iraq amid rising sectarian tension. Officials said four car bombs and …
Why Qatari Owners of Paris’ Soccer Team Hanker For Aging Englishman Beckham
Why does perennially under-performing Paris Saint-Germain of France’s anemic professional soccer league see hiring a fading star at over $1 million per month as vital to assuring its future? Because the aging player in question …
In Defense of Little Lungs: The Challenge of Raising Kids in Smoggy Beijing
The survey arrived in our older son’s bookbag, along with a sheet of Chinese characters he was learning at his bilingual pre-school in Beijing. It pertained to an index measuring air pollution (on a scale of 0-500) and asked at …
Don’t Mention the War? Brits Can’t Help Themselves
Schedule clashes are inevitable during the festive season, and on the evening of Dec. 19, the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and Britain’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague, held Christmas drinks at opposite poles of the city …
Why U.S.-China Strategic Competition Is Unlikely to Help Manage North Korea’s Transition
The growing geopolitical competition between the U.S. and China makes prospects for productive partnership in managing North Korea much less likely
Writing for Commies: 7 Tips from Kim Jong Il’s 1986 Treatise on Literature
Want to write like the Dear Leader? Here’s how.
The Koreas: To Reunify or Not?
Kim Jong Il’s sudden death sent Seoul scrambling — and reignited decades-old questions about the future of the Korean Peninsula. Should South Korea President Lee Myung Bak push for unification?
“The theater of politics makes permanent demands on us all, as dramatists, actors, and audience – on our common sense, our moderation, our responsibility, our good taste, and our conscience.”
Iraq After the War: Maliki’s Attack on Sunni Leaders Suggests a Dark, Divided Future
It might seem that the dust had hardly settled on the tracks of the last U.S. convoy that rolled out of Iraq on Saturday before Shi’ite and Sunni politicians were at one another’s throats. That would be a misleading impression, …
China’s Stake in a Stable North Korea
The historic and strategic reasons Beijing maintains its friendship with the rogue state