The Violent Tuition Protests in South Africa

NEWS BRIEF Police in South Africa fired rubber bullets at students Wednesday, as protests over tuition increases turned into

The Legal Fiction That Could Kill Duane Buck

The island of Minorca is now part of Spain. Roughly 270 square miles in area, it basks in the sunny Mediterranean some 75 miles east of its

The Legal Fiction That Could Kill Dwayne Buck

The island of Minorca is now part of Spain. Roughly 270 square miles in area, it basks in the sunny Mediterranean some 75 miles east of its

Clinton Would Be Wise to Denounce Howard Dean

His insinuations about Trump's sniffles are as outrageous as Republican slurs

How Obama Could Lose His Big Climate Case

WASHINGTON—There’s a commonplace when writing about climate change, a juxtaposition so familiar it almost deserves a name. It resembles

Who are the winners and losers in Jordan’s latest elections?

With limited political party participation in parliament and a legislature that is still dominated by loyalists, many Jordanians believe that...

Incitement, tensions rise over Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Controversial statements by Lebanese authorities point to growing frustration over the presence of more than 1 million Syrian refugees in

Barely illegal: The changing face of Turkey's pleasure industry

Prostitution and escort services — often one and the same — are flourishing through aggressive promotions using hookup apps, social media

Who Wants a Ticket to Mars?

Colonizing the red planet will be much less pleasant than Elon Musk makes it out

Why Gaza's intellectuals are fleeing abroad

Lack of freedom of thought and expression is leading creative young Palestinians to flee Gaza in search of a place where they can

Gülen's charter schools in US

Congress Avoids a Pre-Election Shutdown

NEWS BRIEF The Senate on Wednesday approved funds to keep the federal government open through Election Day and provided assistance for combatting...

Health-Care Costs Ate Your Pay Raises

Take-home wages have stagnated for more than 40 years because employers shell out so much more for worker

The Forgotten Providers

The people who will save American health care likely don’t wear lab coats or perform complicated procedures in operating rooms. They

Hidden costs of CPEC

AN important announcement from the government went relatively unnoticed given the atmosphere that prevails, so let me reconstruct a timeline here...

New Philippines Leader Wants To Boot U.S. Commandos as ISIS Seeks a Foothold

U.S. Special Forces helped Manila weaken a virulent Islamist insurgency. But Duterte is talking about pushing out the Americans as fears rise

The Day Shimon Peres Returned To His Boyhood Village

Like many founding fathers of Israel, he was born in Eastern Europe. After the Soviet Union collapsed, he returned in 1992 searching for his

Parents Speak Out, Say FBI Arrest Saved Son On Verge Of Joining ISIS

Parents of a young man who pleaded guilty to trying to join ISIS met with community leaders this week. They made the case for why parents

Can Israel’s Peace Movement Survive the Loss of Shimon Peres?

As the world pays tribute to the former Israeli prime minister, some in the country worry that the two-state solution may have died

A robot car and a retaining wall

Hey, did you know they built a Transformer in Ankara? Believe me, this is

Penny Stocks, Robot Wars and Arnold Palmer

Here are your

Boris wins Turkish hearts and minds

The visit by British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to Ankara was bound to be one of the most difficult in

China-Canada extradition talks point to give-and-take diplomacy

Canada's controversial move to begin talks on a proposed extradition agreement with China is timely and more nuanced than Western

Holier-than-thou leaders

PERSONALLY, I think we should butt out of Syria altogether. Every time we take the so called moral high ground, we finish up causing even more...

Behind the Scenes / Be prepared for earthquakes in any location

An earthquake with a focus in Suruga Bay, Shizuoka Prefecture, could strike at any moment. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the

Rating agencies are in quest of speculation

The Deadly Typhoon That Hit China and Taiwan

NEWS BRIEF A typhoon that has already devastated Taiwan has left nearly three dozen people missing in eastern China following a series

India's 'Surgical Strikes' in Pakistan-Controlled Kashmir

India said Thursday its military launched “surgical strikes” on the Pakistani side of the de-facto border in Kashmir, inflicting

Life in the Air

In mid-September, my husband Jim and I made our third trip back to Erie, Pennsylvania. Fortunately, while Erie is approximately 400 driving

Hoarding in the Time of Marie Kondo

CHICAGO—It was Nordstrom’s anniversary sale, and Marnie couldn’t help herself. She ran to the shoe display, and, with a swooping bear

The Algorithms That Tell Bosses How Employees Are Feeling

Every day, humans type out more than 200 billion emails, hundreds of millions of tweets, and innumerable texts, chats, and private messages. No

After Obama, what comes next for US-Tunisia ties?

While the US has a strategic interest in keeping Tunisia stable, its interest recently has been mostly lip service, and some argue things

AKP’s war economy widens income gap

A recent survey by Turkey’s official statistics agency reveals growing income disparities as the country’s economic downturn continues

Affordable Housing Is Easy. In Theory.

The hard part is overcoming special interests that like cities just the way

Trump-Clinton debate dominates headlines in Iran

While some stayed awake in Iran to follow the first round of the US presidential debates live, others read about it in the press, which

The first US presidential debate: Divided we shall remain!

Should we rethink Kashmir?

PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif has perhaps done all that he could to draw the international community’s attention to the Kashmiri people’s

Israel's war on peaceful activism

Despite increasing dangers Palestinian and Israeli activists continue their efforts to oppose the

For Affirmative Action, Brazil Sets Up Controversial Boards To Determine Race

A quota system for public universities and government jobs was meant to increase the number of Afro-Brazilians. But it has been abused and now

China Wants GMOs. The Chinese People Don't.

The government is relying on technologically enhanced crops to feed the world's

The First Documented Case of Zika Spread by Physical Contact

Utah’s mystery Zika case has been solved, and the answer, as with so many revelations about Zika, is something never before seen with this

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on When Language Fails Her

In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah, her protagonist, Ifemelu, starts a blog about race in America from her perspective as a

The Mytilenean Dialogue from 428 BCE Explains Who Really Won the Trump-Clinton Debate

Why Hillary won, but

Weapon of Self-Destruction

How the Iraq war wrecked

The Atlantic Daily: Looking to Leaders

What We’re FollowingA Leader Remembered: Shimon Peres, the former president of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died at the age of 93

Fulfilling the vision of Peres requires dismantling settlements

Former President Shimon Peres' Middle East peace legacy can only be realized if the settlements he himself approved many years ago

US's schizophrenic YPG policy in Syria

As Heavy-Truck Sales Go, So Goes the Economy

August was a terrible month for selling big trucks. History says

No, Donald, the Fed Isn’t Manipulating the Economy for Political Gain

Why Trump’s accusations don’t

The Real Reason So Many Americans Oppose Immigration

It's not economic anxiety. It's not concerns about