Dexter Filkins’ story about the recent flipping of one large and powerful tribe in Afghanistan is generating a lot of buzz – with some touting the conversion as the first stage in a recreation of the Sons of Iraq program which established alliances with Sunni elements against al-Qaeda in Iraq. However, there are concerns [...]
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Bernard Finel argues against knee-jerk resort to the use of military force in places like Yemen – or rather, argues that the full implications of such involvement should be subject to a more rigorous strategic analysis before the bullets fly. Finel points out that military involvement creates reinforcing loops of circular reasoning that tend to deepen [...] In the aftermath of the recent earthquake that devastated the already beleaguered people of Haiti, the impoverished condition of that nation – which greatly exacerbated the lethality of the quake - has received sudden heightened scrutiny. Unsurprisingly, various factions have simply plugged Haiti’s current condition into their preferred framework to reach their desired explanation. In some cases, the results [...] |
Blake Hounshell (aka praktike), our co-founder and main man, is managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He's now reporting on the Egyptian Revolution from Cairo. 
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