Information is everywhere, Insight is priceless

Zarif makes a persuasive argument. On the other hand, not trusting people further than you can throw them is no reason not to like them.

Every night for the last week they come out at precisely 8:00 o’clock to bang the pots and pans, the traditional exorcism for evil spirits.

The United States won the last Cold War without fighting our great power rival, but by simply denying them market access.

The Arab Spring ten years on reveals the meat-hook realities beyond revolutionary slogans.

George Washington led an army in a successful colonial revolt, but he was no radical. The man was about as establishment as you get.

Still, the culture of America’s 17 intelligence agencies is hardwired for the cloak and dagger – even among themselves.

On the gulf’s east bank sits Iran, baring its teeth at Saudi Arabia and doing a fair job of conquest-by-internal-rot of Iraq.

“Run and find out.” Motto of all the Mongoose family Rudyard Kipling Rikki-tikki-tavi November 2012: I was starting to sweat. It was a...

When politics is a blood sport, the jokes just keep getting worse.