JAMES TRAUB is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and director of policy at the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. His most recent book is The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy.
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...