Week of December 9, 2013 Archives

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Monday, December 9
How the U.S. Lost Its Syrian Allies
Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast
Containing Iran the Least Awful Choice
George Will, National Post
Why Is Thailand So Dysfunctional? Blame the King
Paul Handley, FP
The Egyptian Military's New Power Grab
Amir Taheri, New York Post
If Putin Wins in Ukraine, Russia Loses
Andrew Wood, American Interest
Iran, from Enemy to Ally
David Patrikarakos, New York Times
Iran's Demographic Precipice
Michael Rubin, Commentary
Mandela's Death Reveals His Country's Problems
Anne Applebaum, Slate
Mandela the Politician
Stanley Greenberg, Bloomberg
ANC Has Lost Glue That Keeps It Together
William Gumede, Guardian
China's Newest City: We Call It 'Detroit'
Gordon Chang, Forbes
The New Global Space Race
Louis Friedman, Los Angeles Times
Who's Afraid of Big, Bad Weed? Canada
Elizabeth Renzetti, Globe & Mail
No, 100,000 Christians Won't Be Martyred
Tom Chivers, The Telegraph
Reading Albert Camus in North Africa
Robert Zaretsky, The Daily Star
Tuesday, December 10
Obama Cherry-Picked Intel on Syria
Sy Hersh, London Review of Books
Seymour Hersh's Chemical Misfire
Eliot Higgins, Foreign Policy
Nelson Mandela Sold Out Black South Africans
Noah Feldman, Bloomberg
Is China Repeating Germany's Mistakes?
Richard Gwyn, Toronto Star
Think American Debt Is Bad? Try China
Benjamin Carlson, Global Post
Britain Is Now a Developing Country
Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
Don't Expect Germany to Stand Up to Russia
John Vinocur, WSJ
Putin's Imperial One-Man Show
Maxim Trudolyubov, New York Times
Reagan Was Right on South Africa
Pat Buchanan, Creators Syndicate
Why Conservatives Struggle with Mandela's Legacy
Isaac Chotiner, TNR
Arab World Needs Its Mandela -- and de Klerk
Richard Spencer, Telegraph
Thailand Gives Up on Democracy
Greg Sheridan, The Australian
No Easy Answers in Central African Republic
Susanna Flood, GPS
China Is Failing Its Families
Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox, New Geography
This Canadian City Could Be the Next Detroit
Joseph Arvai, Globe & Mail
Wednesday, December 11
Japan Is Ready for War. Are We?
Peter Hartcher, Sydney Morning Herald
Russia, Like Ukraine, Will Become a Democracy
Zbigniew Brzezinski, FT
Time for Britain to Step Back into the Mideast
Con Coughlin, Telegraph
Can China Escape Demographic Death Spiral?
Paul French, EA Forum
Economic Misery Aside, Europe Is a Success
Hamish McRae, Independent
Why Mandela Was Unique
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
EU Won't Make Ukraine a Democracy
Sergei Markedonov, RIGA
The Quickest Way to Wreck Iran Talks
Colin Kahl, Politico
The Mess in South Africa
R.W. Johnson, London Evening Standard
Why Is Germany Getting Tough on Russia?
Jakob Augstein, Der Spiegel
Fate of Christianity Is Grim in Mideast
Allan Massie, The Scotsman
Why Canada Wants to Claim the North Pole
Katie Drummond, The Verge
Turkey's Next Nightmare
Christopher de Bellaigue, NY Review of Books
EU Crisis Isn't Down to Lazy Greeks
Mehdi Hasan, New Statesman
Cameron Bends Backwards for China
Frank Ching, China Post
Thursday, December 12
Strike Iran Now to Avert Disaster Later
Norman Podhoretz, WSJ
Iran's Hardliners, and Ours
Bill Keller, New York Times
The Globe's Nuclear Gangsters
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Japan's Morally Troubled Revival
Robert Kaplan & Matt Gertken, Stratfor
Ukraine Doesn't Want Back in the USSR
Michael Weiss, Foreign Policy
Is Ukraine the Next Egypt?
Job Henning, The National Interest
Putin the Peronist
Nina Khrushcheva, Project Syndicate
Ukraine's Drama, Obama's Weakness
John Bolton, Los Angeles Times
Obama Channels Kissinger
David Ignatius, Washington Post
How Pope Francis Misunderstands the World
Marian Tupy, The Atlantic
Why Western Media Are Attacking Turkey
Ertan Aydin, Al Jazeera
Turkey Plays the 'Orientalism' Card
Marc Champion, Bloomberg
Mandela Sanitized by Hypocrites and Apologists
Seumas Milne, Guardian
The WTO Is Back -- for Now
Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Yale Global
Lebanon Is No Country for Young Men
Michael Young, The Daily Star
Friday, December 13
Putin's Poker Game Makes Fools of West
Garry Kasparov, The Spectator
Gay Rights and Putin's Olympics
David Remnick, The New Yorker
The End of the Russian Energy Bully
Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
N. Korea: Sliding into Chaos, or More Stable than Ever?
Geoff Cain, GP
Execution Raises Doubts About Kim's Grip on Power
C. Sang-Hun, NYT
This Chinese Revolt Would Change the World
Jeremy Warner, Telegraph
Missing American in Iran Was on CIA Mission
Apuzzo & Goldman, AP
Turkey Cashes in on Iran Talks
Jonathan Schanzer, Reuters
Uruguay Deserves Nobel for Legalizing Pot
Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
How Paranoia Ruined U.S.'s Syria Policy
Isaac Chotiner, New Republic
Time for U.S. Action in Central African Republic
Michael Gerson, WaPo
Is It Time for the U.S. to Shake Cuba's Hand Too?
Tom Hayden, LA Times
Globalization in a Nutella Jar
Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
I Just Became an Outlaw in My Own Country
Tushar Malik, CNN
End Canada Post's Mail Monopoly
Kate Heartfield, Ottawa Citizen
Saturday, December 14
Is North Korea on the Brink of Chaos?
Nicholas Eberstadt, Washington Post
Russia's Triumphant Mideast Return
Michael Weiss, American Interest
Here's How Fast a Global Plague Would Spread
Sydney Brownstone, FC
Globalization Turning West Against Elites
Ian Buruma, FT
Don't Blame Colonialism for African Failures
JL Amselle, Le Monde
The End of the Free Syrian Army
Mike Giglio, BuzzFeed
Well Played China, Well Played
Peter Mattis, The National Interest
The Rise and Rise of Marine Le Pen
Jeremy Jennings, Standpoint
Is Japanese Democracy at Risk?
Sebastian Maslow, East Asia Forum
The Greening of John Podesta
Daniel McGroarty, RealClearWorld
South Korea's Chomskyite Flunkies
Sung-Yoon Lee, Asia Times
5 Things Afghanistan Needs to Avoid Collapse
Ahmed Rashid, Spectator
Will China Have an Apollo Moment?
Sarah Cruddas, BBC News
U.S. Not War Weary but Obama Weary
Lee Smith, Weekly Standard
Is Santa Canadian?
The Economist
Sunday, December 15
Dear President of China
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Obama Leaves U.S. Friends Behind
Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph
Persecution of Christians Requires U.S. Action
Ken Starr, USA Today
Western Diplomats Will Disappoint Ukraine
Simon Shuster, Time
Ukraine Is a Failing State
Sergei Aleksashenko, Moscow Times
How Is Hamas Still Standing?
Josh Nason, Tablet Magazine
Here's Why Israelis & Palestinians Can Coexist
Hussein Ibish, National
5 Mideast Points for Kerry to Mull Over
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
Why Ukraine Isn't a Vital U.S. Interest
Nikolas Gvosdev, WPR
What Orwell Can Tell Us About Syria
Evan Helmuth, NOW Lebanon
Are the Senkakus Worth a War?
Patrick Buchanan, Creators Syndicate
How Will N. Korea Execution Play Out?
Akira Nakano, Asahi Shimbun
Madness of EU Aid to the Palestinians
Michael Curtis, The Commentator
5 Surprise Places the U.S. Military Operates
Hayes Brown, TP
Insurgents Are Remaking British Politics
James Forsyth, The Spectator
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