No, we're not reliving the 1960s, says Harvard historian Arne Westad.

Don't congratulate the administration on avoiding Russian retaliation. The humanitarian crisis in Syria remains, and the real collision course here is between Israel and Iran.

The demise of the Trump-Putin bromance leaves a dangerous combination: two toddlers-in-chief, a bellicose top adviser, and a decimated diplomatic corps.

All the usual suspects unite to do nothing at all—at least nothing coherent.

Germany’s risky law for stopping hate speech on Facebook and Twitter

How Donald Trump's hands-off approach to Saudi Arabia squanders the U.S.'s leverage in the Middle East

A U.N. report on Myanmar's campaign against the Rohingya reveals the ways in which oppressive regimes can use social media for ill.

A look back at what the administration has accomplished in the region in the past year

His rambling, incoherent speech to the U.N. General Assembly was proof that the president only has one audience in mind—and it isn't a global one.

Osama Alomar's story collection "The Teeth of the Comb" looks at cruelty, compassion, and hope in the face of catastrophe.

Despite Trump's campaign rhetoric, his hawkish stance increasingly resembles Hillary Clinton's—and it's stirring fears of a major war.

He faces numerous possible pitfalls in his first official trip to the region—as well as opportunities.

Trump was powered to the Oval Office by fascists. Now they feel betrayed.

Nixon was smart and calculating. Trump is just ignorant and incompetent.

Bombings in Syria and Afghanistan were oddly exciting to some pundits.

It blinds us to the ways in which the institutions constraining Trump are themselves flawed.