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By Robert Schaefer, Special to CNN Editor's note: Robert Schaefer is a Special Forces (Green Beret) and Eurasian Foreign Area Officer and author of The Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus, From Gazavat to Jihad. The views expressed are his own. As we all struggle to make sense of the Boston bombings, and the [...]
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"Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN Fareed speaks with New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly about the lessons from the attack in Boston this week, and how New York law enforcement is working to protect the city. Congressman Peter King says that what we need, what this Boston marathon [...]
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By Fareed Zakaria Boston has a tough New England spirit, a puritan ethic that prizes doing one's job and not making a fuss. (I spent seven years living in that beautiful city and was always struck by its strength of character.) But beyond Boston, we Americans might have finally come to realize that the most [...]
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"Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN On GPS this Sunday at 10 a.m. and repeated at 1 p.m., a special live show with expert analysis and discussion of the lessons and implications of this week's terrorist attack in Boston. First, Fareed speaks with New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. [...]
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By Christopher Sabatini, Special to CNN Editor's note: Christopher Sabatini is the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly and senior director of policy at Americas Society/Council of the Americas. The views expressed are his own. It wasn't supposed to go this way. When the Venezuelan government announced in March that it would hold elections on April 14 to replace the [...]
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After weeks of escalating rhetoric, tensions between North Korea and the United States appear to be easing. But what prompted Pyongyang's recent provocative statements? How well did the U.S. handle the threats? And what happens now? James Schoff, a senior associate on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Asia Program, is answering GPS readers' questions [...]
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By Fareed Zakaria At least 14 people were killed with guns a day before the U.S. Senate failed to pass a single new gun control amendment, suggests a gun deaths database on Slate. "Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths are collecting data for our crowdsourced interactive," the site notes. "This data is necessarily incomplete. But [...]
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By Isabelle Arradon, Special to CNN Editor's note: Isabelle Arradon is deputy Asia-Pacific director of Amnesty International. The views expressed are her own. From the outside, it looked like just one of the many large traditional houses you find across Aceh, Indonesia. But at the height of the military operations during the Aceh conflict in [...]
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By Arthur L. Kellermann, Special to CNN Editor's note: Arthur Kellermann holds the Paul O'Neill-Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. The views expressed are his own. A pair of deadly bomb blasts marked a violent and tragic finish to this year's Boston Marathon. But as shocking as the attack may [...]
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By Fareed Zakaria Boston has a tough New England spirit, a puritan ethic that prizes doing one's job and not making a fuss. (I spent seven years living in that beautiful city and was always struck by its strength of character.) But beyond Boston, we Americans might have finally come to realize that the most [...]
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