Top 10 Foreign Affairs Stories of 2015 That Will Matter in 2016
What you need to know about the year's biggest international hotspots, revolutions, and brewing conflicts.
Russia
U.S. Says ISIS Sold $500 Million of Oil, With 'Great Deal' Going to Syrian Government
Russia accuses Turkey of being a primary recipient.
Paris Climate Change Conference
Paris Climate Conference Emissions Promises Do NOT Mean Real Emissions Cuts
Sixth Dispatch: The claim that pledges from 180 countries cover 95 percent of emissions is seriously misleading.
The DJ Who Helped Win the Cold War
Voice of America's Willis Conover got the Soviet Bloc jazzed up.
American Military Boots Are on the Ground in Syria, But Does President Obama Have a Plan?
"ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror" co-author Michael Weiss on how Obama allowed a bad situation to get worse in Syria.
Ben Carson's Disqualifying Foreign Policy Incoherence
Debate answer exposes a revealing problem not just for the inexperienced candidate, but for the bellicose GOP
Post-Debate, Is Rand Paul Back?
Rand Paul can balance the budget, he blames the Fed, he'll talk rather than start wars we can't afford, and generally seemed the most thoughtfully radical guy up there.
Are Obama and America to Blame for Syria's Disaster?
"ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror" co-author Michael Weiss on how Obama allowed a bad situation to get worse in Syria.
Russia Launches Airstrikes in Syria, Earns Criticism From U.S.
U.S. says it makes the conflict riskier
America's Half-Measures Against Putin
U.S. has no solutions for Russia's actions toward Ukraine, so instead it pursues some useless policies.
Cloud-Based Password Service LastPass Hacked, User Data Compromised
But cryptographic tech, like that the government wants to weaken, helps mitigate the risk to users.
Russians and Chinese Got Snowden Documents the Old-Fashioned Way
By hacking the NSA computers. So says security analyst Bruce Schneier.
Liberation of Medicine: Ronald Bailey's Lecture in Moscow
How technology is freeing both patients and physicians from the medical industrial complex
The Rise and Fall of Cybernetic Communism
The Soviets, the cyberneticists, and the SNAFU Principle
Russia Pledges Essentially Zero To Global Greenhouse Gas Goals
Russia's intended nationally determined contribution by 2030 is ... nothing
Who Ordered the Assassination of Russian Liberal Icon Boris Nemtsov?
Visiting the bridge where he was murdered.
Bailey Lecturing in Russia and Ukraine on the Liberation of Medicine
How technology is freeing both patients and physicians from the medical industrial complex
Ben Carson: Put the Baltics in NATO! Beware the Sunni-Shia Alliance!
Three madcap foreign policy claims by the GOP's resident super-outsider
Snowden Is Talking About Coming Back to U.S., Says Russian Lawyer
President Obama: You can still do the right thing.
Russian Opposition Fearful Following Nemtsov Killing, but Rally Anyway
Thousands come out to protest.
Pussy Riot Dedicate New Song, 'I Can't Breathe,' to Eric Garner and All 'Who Suffer From State Terror'
"We've known, on our own skin, what police brutality feels like, and we can't be silent on this issue."
Ukraine Ceasefire Deal Just 'A Glimmer of Hope'; U.S. Says Fighting Escalating
A ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels is supposed to start on Sunday but that still seems a long way away.
Ukraine: Arresting Dissidents, Eager for U.S.'s Military Support
Let's think more than twice about fighting Ukraine's battles.
Why We Shouldn't Arm Ukraine
The Russians can beat us to any punch, and they would hit harder.
Red Army Film Explores Hockey, The Cold War, and Sports as Propaganda
Filmmaker Gabe Polsky and Russian hockey star Slava Fetisov discuss the new documentary about the Soviet national hockey team.
Inside Stalin's Head
A biography offers fresh insights on one of history's bloodiest dictators.
