The Kurdish Closing

A Turkish court recently closed down the country’s only pro-Kurdish party. What happened to the country’s new politics of ethnic tolerance?

The Surge: Illusion & Reality

Car bombings, sectarian violence and attacks on U.S. troops are down. But does the reduced violence have anything to do with the “surge”?

A Constitution of Trouble

Despite an announced “compromise” both the procedure that produced the Iraqi constitutional draft that will be voted on October 15, and its constitutional substance were and are disastrous.