For the first time, the Queen will be accompanied to the annual State Opening of Parliament not only by her doughty husband, …
Diplomacy
The Ambassador May Wear Prada
Obama weighs appointing big names and fundraisers to patronage posts
Diplomacy in the Age of Twitter
For the second time in seven months, the U.S. embassy in Cairo got itself into Twitter trouble. The unusually combative Twitter feed on Tuesday criticized the Egyptian government’s imprisonment of comedian Bassem Youssef for …
How Barack Obama Brought Turkey and Israel Back Together
Obama pushed for normalization of relations during his trip to Israel, capping years of work by U.S. diplomats to bring the two U.S. allies back together
Secretary of State John Kerry’s First Overseas Trip
A TIME photo gallery of John Kerry’s ten-day inaugural trip.
Netanyahu at the U.N.: Bibi Makes Nice with Obama
In a departure from his recent icy statements aimed at the Obama Administration, Netanyahu took a friendlier approach in his speech at the U.N.
Inside America’s Secret Training of Syria’s Digital Army
Updated: 5:37 p.m.
I have a story in this week’s magazine, available online now and hitting stands this Friday, about U.S. efforts to help Syrian dissidents. The U.S. isn’t arming anybody – as Hillary Clinton on Tuesday accused Russia of doing for Syrian President Bashar Assad – but the State Department is training protesters …
Syria Presents Another Predicament for Kofi Annan and His U.N. Legacy
Kofi Annan has seen a lot of genocide. He hasn’t been the monster pulling the trigger, or ordering the deaths. But to hear his critics tell it, as head of the United Nations Peacekeepers in 1994 and 1995 he failed to prevent the Rwandan genocide and the massacre at Srebrenica in former Yugoslavia. The 2003 Darfur genocide began during …
Long-Term Uncertainty Remains in Nuclear Talks with Iran
Anyone banking on a big-win breakthrough in Wednesday’s nuclear talks with Iran will likely find themselves in the same boat as investors who bet on an instant surge in the Facebook stock price last week. If there’s value to …
The G8 Summit at Camp David: This Time, It’s Important
Not since the oil shocks that first brought the world’s superpowers together in 1974–back then they called themselves the “Library Group” because they met in the White House library–has the G8 had so much substantive …
Obama About as Popular Abroad as He Is at Home
Less than half the world – 46% — would want to see President Barack Obama reelected, according to a new poll out Thursday of 150 nations done by the U.S. Global Leadership Project, a collaboration between the Meridian International Center and Gallup. That’s exactly the percentage of Americans who approve of the job Obama’s doing …
Netanyahu Signals Determination on Iran, But War Will Have to Wait
Had he been speaking Hebrew in a dramatic TV broadcast back home, parts of Benjamin Netanyahu’s fire-and-brimstone speech Tuesday night might have been mistaken for the words of an Israeli prime minister about to launch a fateful war. He painted Iran’s nuclear program as an apocalyptic extermination threat redolent of the Nazi …
Reading the Tea Leaves in Newly Announced U.S. Talks with North Korea
Despite the change in regime, the lines of communication between the U.S. and North Korea have remained open, leading to the announcement on Monday that they they would hold talks on Feb. 23 in Beijing. It will be the third in a series of “conversations” between the two countries which began last July in the hopes of restarting the …
