After weeks of speculation about who was responsible for the hacking of Sony, U.S officials are telling the press that North Korea was "centrally involved." Why the government now feels confident in…

Marc Chandler asked why I chose to attribute Belgium’s holdings to China rather than any of the other potential candidates—notably the Gulf and Russia. The answer for Russia is pretty straightforwar…

Below is the first installment in a series of three posts looking specifically at the prevailing debates on Syria and what to do about the situation there. In mid January, I wrote a piece on The Atl…

A policeman tries to control the crowds as they gather outside a polling station during the second day of parliamentary elections in Giza (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Courtesy Reuters) In the midst of Egyp…