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By Peter Fragiskatos, Special to CNN Editor's note: Peter Fragiskatos teaches at Western University in London, Canada. You can follow him @pfragiskatos. The views expressed are his own. Amidst the horror that continues to plague Syria, a glimmer of hope emerged last week as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei [...]
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By Fareed Zakaria "Thanks to ambiguity about what it means to be 'primarily' concerned with 'social welfare,' political activists have reaped a bonanza for years while the IRS ignored their chicanery, writes Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. "And once again, now that the agency has tried to regulate, the regulated parties have blown [...]
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By Alex Vines, Special to CNN Editor's note: Alex Vines is director of Area Studies and International Law and heads the Angola Forum at Chatham House. He is also a senior lecturer at Coventry University. The views expressed are his own. Twenty years ago this Sunday, the United States belatedly recognized Angola. Today, Angola is [...]
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"Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN America's economy is showing further signs of slower growth, Reuters reported today, with "factory activity slipping in the mid-Atlantic region while groundbreaking declined at home construction sites." How much of a concern are these latest numbers? How big an impact has sequestration - [...]
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"Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN On April 17, a U.S. drone strike killed an al Qaeda militant and four others in a remote village in Western Yemen. CNN's Jessica Gutteridge talks to Farea Al-Muslimi, a former U.S. exchange student who grew up in the village. "I grew [...]
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By Fareed Zakaria America has risen to global might, and yet it has not produced the kind of opposition that many would have predicted. In fact, today it is in the astonishing position of being the world's dominant power while many of the world's next most powerful nations-Britain, France, Germany, Japan-are all allied with it. [...]
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By Soner Cagaptay and Philip Solondz, Special to CNN Editor's note: Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. James F. Jeffrey is the Institute's Philip Solondz distinguished visiting fellow and former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Iraq. The views expressed are their own. This [...]
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By Sahar Aziz, Special to CNN Editor's note: Sahar Aziz is an associate professor at Texas Wesleyan School of Law where she teaches national security and civil right law. She previously served as a senior policy advisor at the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The views [...]
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By Bruce Stokes, Special to CNN Editor's note: Bruce Stokes is director of global economic attitudes at the Pew Research Center. The views expressed are his own. The Great Recession and the ensuing euro crisis have wreaked havoc with the European economy and now threaten to undermine the European Union itself. As Washington prepares to [...]
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By Fareed Zakaria The likelihood of ethnic cleansing in Syria's coastal regions is high, argues Joshua Landis on Syria Comment. "It will rise even higher should Assad's troops begin to lose. The Sunni populations of the coastal cities will be the first to be targeted by Assad's military, if it is pushed out of Damascus. [...]
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