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December 14, 2015 Commentary

Delusion of justice on CIA torture

December 11, 2015 Commentary

Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

December 11, 2015 Commentary

Where does the right to education stop?

December 10, 2015 Commentary

EU blame game causes migrant suffering in Greece

Members of the Hellenic Coast Guard rescue migrants and asylum seekers from an overcrowded rubber dinghy found drifting in the sea off Lesbos island in Greece. October 4, 2015.

December 8, 2015 Commentary

Daily Life in the Caliphate

Militant Islamist fighters waving flags, travel in vehicles as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province, June 30, 2014.

December 4, 2015 Commentary

Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

Turkish Gendarmes lead a group of refugees to buses to prevent them from sailing off for the Greek island of Chios by dinghies, at a beach in the western Turkish coastal town of Cesme.

December 3, 2015 Commentary

Terrorism’s Power Depends on Our Response

French soldiers patrol in front of the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France

December 2, 2015 Commentary

Don’t Respond to Refugees with Fear and Bigotry

December 1, 2015 Commentary

Where is the Outrage on David Cameron’s Scandal in the Gulf?

The UAE, we now know, was busy planning its own operation against Muslim Brotherhood affiliates at home while urging David Cameron to do the same in Britain.

December 1, 2015 Commentary

Paris as a test case for the west

One effective way for western governments to keep their people safe is to press for fundamental reforms in countries where armed extremists thrive, rather than subverting democracy at home.