- Militant Islamists attack a major airbase in Pakistan.
- Jeffrey Lewis on recent leaks concerning US intelligence reassessing Iran’s nuclear program: “One thing I learned living in Washington is that intelligence leaks are usually the losing side of an argument.”
- Michael Cohen searches for the “Incredible Shrinking GOP Foreign-Policy Expert.”
- Ezra Klein points out that the Presidential candidates talk issues… while the media focuses on trivialities.
- Daryl Morini projects a Sino-US space race.
- A less evenhanded variant of Patrick Porter’s recent Duck piece upset the national-security tweetersphere yesterday.
- What if teaching history was like teaching biology? Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal tackles the difficult questions.
Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.



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