The Global Atlas

It's been a long week. I wrote two weeks ago about President Obama's new foray into intervention in Iraq, using airstrikes to wea...

A pro-Russian separatists looks at the crash site. Courtesy Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev. When I looked at my computer yesterday afternoon, I c...

The following is an adaptation of a presentation I gave on April 12, 2014 at the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies conference: ...

It is a civil war (or rather a series of them) that has led to the deaths of 5.4 million people since 1998. More than 2.6 million people ar...