Roya Hakakian will be on book leave to complete her manuscript: The Assassins of the Turquoise Palace to be published by Grove/Atlantic Press. Her next blog will appear at the end of the month.
Jackson Diehl on sectarianism in Syria, Elliott Abrams and Robert Wexler on Iran's nuclear threat, and John Rosenthal on Germany and the origins of the euro crisis. Plus US-Pakistan relations, academia's new communism, Spain's economy, and more...