Letters
List of Letters articles
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549004_letters_reiffrsz2.jpg The Numbers Game
U.N. spokesperson Elisabeth Byrs writes that David Rieff's accusations of casualty count inflation are unfair.
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551082_110809_Letters_Soviet_Applebaum5.jpg Going for Gorby
The not-so-lame afterlife of the Soviet Union's last leader.
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TK Sea Change
The Cato Institute's Ted Galen Carpenter asks whether the United States can afford the naval confrontation with China envisioned by Robert Kaplan.
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549012_111005_Letters_Pape_picnik5.jpg Duchy of Hazard
Fernand Grulms of Luxembourg's national financial center is not amused by Eric Pape's tongue-in-cheek take on the country.
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TK The Jihad Deficit
Terrorism scholar Daveed Gartenstein-Ross says Charles Kurzman is underestimating the threat al Qaeda will pose in the coming decade.
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Dept. of Irony
Some readers didn't quite get our joke.
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Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Waiting for the Revolutions
Don't blame the experts who didn't see the Arab Spring coming.
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549007_111010_cover_188-rsz2.jpg Love and Robots
Artificial intelligence expert David Levy says relationships with robots might be even more complicated than Ayesha and Parag Khanna assume.
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PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images Letter: Our Government Works Just Fine, Thanks
The president of Taiwan's legislative body responds to being called out on charges of parliamentary funk.
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SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images Dear President Mbeki: The United Nations Helped Save the Ivory Coast
By sticking to internationally recognized principles, the U.N. was able to restore the rule of law in the embattled West African state.
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551085_letters_revolutionroad2.jpg Moral Revolutions
The pursuit of truth and goodness is more complicated than it seems -- especially in Russia.
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Aaron Salcido My Soft Power
The top 10 reasons why Joe Nye's books keep landing on the recommended reading list for U.S. presidents.
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Sean McCabe Gangster’s Paradise
Why we have to use the language of corruption when we talk about politics in Russia
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551067_letters_failedstates_introindex2.jpg We Demand a Recount
The country is developing, not failing.
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553097_110614_0_Letters_Brown2.jpg Food Fight
The new geopolitics of agriculture aren't new.
