From Catalonia to Kurdistan, long simmering regions are clamoring for their own states. Democracy can be messy. In the northeast corner of Spain this week, democracy was downright chaotic. Catalans went to the polls on October 1 to vote in a...
Our present explanations of the radicalized, self-sacrificial defiance of many young Muslims are at best partial and, at worst, misleading. Born in Derby, her mother a local woman, her father a painter and decorator from Lahore, Pakistan, she has...
Political spats and rifts in the Middle East could lead to proxy wars and potentially redraw demarcation lines for new states in parts of Iraq and Turkey. The Middle East is witnessing a total makeover that may change the rules of war, peace and...
A yes vote in the Kurdish independence referendum might bring more trouble to the region. When on June 7 Masoud Barzani, Kurdistan’s incumbent president, announced a referendum on independence from Iraq for September 25, a wave of internal...
The US blames everyone but itself for the sorry state of global affairs. Let me try to get this straight: From the moment the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 until recently, just about every politician and mainstream pundit in America assured us that...
