EU Officials Are Considering Bombing Libyan Smuggling Boats. That’s the Last Thing Refugees Need. EU Officials Are Considering Bombing Libyan Smuggling Boats. That’s the Last Thing Refugees Need.
The refugees are fleeing abduction, torture, and assault—that’s why they’ll continue trying to reach Europe any way they can.
May 20, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Turkey’s June Elections: The Last Chance to Save Democracy? Turkey’s June Elections: The Last Chance to Save Democracy?
President Erdogan plans to rewrite the Constitution and concentrate yet more power in his hands.
May 19, 2015 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
Neo-McCarthyism and the US Media Neo-McCarthyism and the US Media
The crusade to ban Russia policy critics
May 19, 2015 / Feature / James Carden
The United States Is Sponsoring an Army That Recruits Child Soldiers The United States Is Sponsoring an Army That Recruits Child Soldiers
American law prevents military aid to countries that employ child soldiers—but that hasn’t stopped us in South Sudan.
May 18, 2015 / Nick Turse
Why Are the Rohingya Risking Everything to Flee Burma? Why Are the Rohingya Risking Everything to Flee Burma?
Stateless refugees from Burma are risking death, rape, and drowning by the thousands on a perilous escape to Malaysia.
May 15, 2015 / Daniel P. Sullivan and Foreign Policy In Focus
Labour’s Love’s Lost Labour’s Love’s Lost
The party must renew links to British civil society.
May 13, 2015 / D.D. Guttenplan
The Tories Won the Vote, but They’re Losing Britain The Tories Won the Vote, but They’re Losing Britain
The UK election’s surprising results don’t alter a longer trend: the decline of two-party dominance
May 13, 2015 / Column / Gary Younge
Why Afghan Women Carried a Funeral Casket for the First Time in Memory Why Afghan Women Carried a Funeral Casket for the First Time in Memory
Farkhunda was murdered on the streets of Kabul while thousands looked on. Now Afghan women are rising up.
May 12, 2015 / Ann Jones
‘The Iranians Are Coming!’ ‘The Iranians Are Coming!’
Apart from widespread fear of Iran, this year’s Al Jazeera Forum in Doha was mostly a display of the Arab world’s many deep fissures.
May 12, 2015 / Juan Cole
It’s a Conspiracy! How to Discredit Seymour Hersh It’s a Conspiracy! How to Discredit Seymour Hersh
The veteran investigative journalist debunked the official version of the bin Laden killing—now there's a rush to smear him.
May 12, 2015 / Greg Grandin