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	In the News November 2, 2011 How cutting Pentagon spending will fix US defense strategy Benjamin FriedmanForeign Affairs Austerity is the best possible auditor.
	In the News October 20, 2011 Chappell Lawson on border security Peter DizikesMIT News With national security and immigration prominent as political issues, border control is a perennial topic of debate in the United States — especially as the presidential campaign heats up. What are the chief border-security issues now facing the country?
	In the News October 20, 2011 Get ready to starve Christian CarylForeign Policy The West was just gearing up to send food to a hungry North Korea. Then came the death of Kim Jong Il.
	In the News October 18, 2011 Two African women won Nobel Peace Prizes, but the continent still has a long way to go to gender equality Jackee Budesta BatandaBoston Globe Less than a year ago, women helped lead the reform movements that swept across Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia. But now that those uprisings have succeeded, and the world's attention has shifted elsewhere, women are once again being shoved aside.
	In the News October 18, 2011 North-South Korea talks in US serious, but civil Harry R. WeberAssociated Press North and South Korean representatives holding informal talks in the U.S. are sitting together at meals, sharing laughs and even breaking out together in song. But long-standing disputes still cropped up Tuesday on Day 2 of the summit at the University of Georgia.
	In the News October 4, 2011 China's response to a rising India Erin FriedNBR Strategic Asia 2011–12: Asia Responds to Its Rising Powers—China and India is the eleventh volume in the Strategic Asia series and explores how key Asian states and regions are responding to the rise of China and India. NBR spoke with M. Taylor Fravel, Strategic Asia contributing author, National Asia Research Associate, and associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who argues that China views India’s rise as a largely positive development that promotes China’s own interests and objectives more than it threatens or challenges them.
	In the News October 3, 2011 Museveni's grip on Uganda Jackee Budesta BatandaBoston Globe Don Innocent Wanyama, an editor with the Ugandan newspaper, Daily Monitor, wrote on Facebook, “I had never paid attention to who Vincent Nzaramba was. But our gov’t, as usual, makes me take note. I have just downloaded a copy of his book - which has caused security agents to detain him. Surely, with our poor reading culture why detain someone for writing a book? The regime should worry more about someone who sings. . .’’
	In the News September 26, 2011 A weakened Ahmadinejad Jim WalshCNN Some of the stereotypes of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fall short of the mark, says Jim Walsh.
	In the News September 17, 2011 When death came hand-delivered Edward Jay EpsteinWall Street Journal Biological warfare came to America soon after the 9/11 attack. In Florida, a photo editor died of inhalation anthrax. At the time it was thought to be an isolated incident. But then anthrax was found in New York in the newsrooms of NBC and the New York Post, together with letters dated "09-11-2001" and warning: "Death to America Death to Israel Allah Is Great."
	In the News September 15, 2011 Tokyo's transformation Eric Heginbotham, Ely Ratner, and Richard J. SamuelsForeign Affairs How Japan is changing -- and what it means for the United States.
	In the News August 19, 2011 Japan after Kan Chris AchesonNBR Although Kan’s resignation may assist the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in rebuilding public trust in its ability to lead, questions remain about the future of the DPJ and the political structure of Japan as it stands today. Japanese domestic politics expert, Richard J. Samuels, provides insight into the DPJ, its political strategy, and the challenges the next administration will face.
	In the News August 11, 2011 In profile: Kenneth Oye Peter DizikesMIT News A political scientist aims to help governments assess the potential risks of new technologies.
	In the News July 4, 2011 Supreme tragedy Hussein BanaiMuftah Although he does not wear a crown (his black turban is as indistinguishable as the next cleric’s), Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has increasingly become regarded as a potentate in the tradition of Middle Eastern autocrats. As the renowned Iranian journalist and dissident, Akbar Ganji, has written of “Sultan Khamenei”’, “[he] has used his broad mandate to exercise control not only over all three branches of government but also over economic, religious, and cultural affairs, sometimes directly and sometimes through various councils or through the Revolutionary Guards.
	In the News June 28, 2011 'Collective autism' about the costs of war Chris LydonRadio Open Source John Tirman is trying to explain how the United States got in the habit of fighting wars without a scorecard. We’re a country, curiously, that can focus like fiends on earned-run averages and on-base percentages. But who among us, on a pop quiz, could come up with the figures on how many died in the Iraq war, compared to the Vietnam war, Korea, the two World Wars, and the annexation of the Philippines at the turn of the 20th Century.
	In the News June 22, 2011 David Singer on the Greek Euro-tragedy Peter DizikesMIT News The economic and fiscal woes of Greece remain at the center of European politics. In recent months, a variety of economists and commentators have asked if Greece should consider the unprecedented move of leaving the European Currency Union, so that it could control and lower its own currency rate, in order to spur exports and growth at a time when its economy is struggling badly. David Singer, an associate professor of political science at MIT, discussed Greece and the Euro-mess with MIT News.
	In the News May 26, 2011 Is it really a new start for Palestinians? Peter KrauseProvidence Journal The unity deal between Fatah and Hamas may well be "historic," but not in the way most news outlets have suggested. Not only is this one of hundreds of unity deals signed by Palestinian factions over the past 50 years, but it is not even the first unity deal signed between Hamas and Fatah, the most recent such agreement coming in 2007.
	In the News May 16, 2011 IMF turmoil unlikely to derail Euro debt talks Bob MoonNPR's Marketplace Just last week, a Bloomberg survey of international investors found 85 percent expect Greece to default on its debt -- that's a stark indicator of the urgency facing the International Monetary Fund in pushing for a resolution to the ongoing crisis. As the former finance minister of France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn's authority on Europe's debt crisis has been widely respected. And his political clout had moved negotiations toward agree. Now these talks face new uncertainty.
	In the News May 5, 2011 The President's triumph: Obama gets his man Christian CarylRadio Free Europe/Radio Liberty The U.S. Special Operations Forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden drew on the efforts of a large team of people from myriad branches of government working in locations around the world. All of them -- including many whose roles may never become public -- deserve a share of the credit. Yet it seems likely that it's the most public figure in the operation who stands to gain the greatest benefit from its success. And if many of the experts are right, he's earned it.
	In the News May 3, 2011 Fotini on the war in Afghanistan Peter DizikesMIT News What impact will the death of Osama bin Laden have on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan? And what effect will it have on the often-tense relationship between the United States and Pakistan? Fotini Christia, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, is conducting ongoing research in Afghanistan and has written widely on the subject. MIT Newsspoke to Christia about the outlook in the region.
	In the News March 24, 2011 Japan after the quake WBUR: On Point Japan is no stranger to natural disaster and struggling back. From shogun, samurai days and far earlier, the Japanese have faced earthquake and tsunami and war, and famously persevered. But some epic events have changed Japan, within that perseverance.