We can’t win the war in Afghanistan, so what do we do? We’ll train the Afghans to do it for us, then claim victory and head for the exits. But what happens if we can’t train the Afghans? We’re about ...

Perhaps the most known character on Family Guy who is not a member of the Griffin family is none other than their Spooner Street neighbor, Glenn Quagmire. Quagmire is a staple in the Family Guy lore ...

It’s far from obvious how to tell whether a quantum computer can outperform a classical one, says Philip Ball. Quantum supremacy might sound ominously like the denouement of the Terminator movie ...

Let's be honest, Glenn Quagmire is the biggest pervert on TV aside from those actual guys who get caught on To Catch a Predator. If he were a real person, he would've been locked up a long ago. And if ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In the years since the Myanmar military launched a coup in February 2021, the ...

The head of the Houthi-run Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, threatened further escalation against the United States in response to intensified airstrikes on Houthi strongholds in Yemen and ...

He just keeps escalating as his strategy fails. By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Remember the Vietnam quagmire? (Actually, I hope many of my readers are young enough that they don’t, but you’ve ...

Nothing can be certain, said Benjamin Franklin, except death and taxes. Except, as we’ve seen, individuals and firms have increasingly found ways to avoid the taxes part, turning tax into a voluntary ...

Nicole Kidman is one of the leading figures in Hollywood as an Oscar-winner and prolific producer, but what if she had other desires that run counter to her perceived status? That is in general one of ...