Why Yemen is Becoming the Iran War's Next Front
The Iran war is spilling over into Yemen. And now, the country is on the verge of a full-blown civil war that could drag in Saudi Arabia, Iran — and potentially the United States. Over the last severa...
8 Sep 25min
Zambia's Fraught Election and the Global Race for Copper
Zambia's election is raising fresh questions about the country's democratic trajectory — even as its vast copper reserves make it increasingly important to the global economy and to strategic competit...
3 Sep 24min
Why Oman Could Be Crucial to Ending the Iran War
Oman has long played one of the Middle East's most unusual diplomatic roles: maintaining close ties with rivals and quietly creating space for enemies to talk. Secret U.S.-Iran negotiations in Muscat ...
31 Aug 26min
Did Russia Just Cross a New Line in AI Warfare?
Last month, a Russian drone flew toward a gas station in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. It crashed into a wall and exploded, killing three civilians. What made this strike different — and potenti...
28 Aug 37min
A Shakeup in the Race for UN Secretary-General | To Save Us From Hell
The United Nations is in the midst of selecting its next Secretary-General — and the race to succeed António Guterres just got more interesting. Last week, the Security Council held a straw poll to te...
27 Aug 29min
Why Policies to Stop Migration Often Ends Up "Aiding Autocrats"
Kelsey Norman is a Fellow for the Middle East and Director of the Women's Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees Program at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. Her new book, Aiding Autoc...
24 Aug 23min
UN Secretary General Candidate Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett
Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett is a Guyanese diplomat and candidate for Secretary-General of the United Nations. If selected, she would become both the first woman and the first person of Indigenous descen...
20 Aug 25min
How Vali Nasr's Life Shaped His Understanding of Iran | From April 2017
Vali Nasr is everywhere in the news these days. The Iranian American scholar has written scores of books and articles about Iran and the Middle East, and even before the U.S.-Israel-Iran war, he was s...
17 Aug 43min
