Middle East

November 3 - Why Foreign Fighters Join the Islamic State; Outside Money and Dark Money in Toss-Up Senate Elections; The U.S. Billionaires Political Power Index

October 29 - The Fed Ends the $4.5 Trillion Quantitative Easing Program; Congressional Hawks Preparing to Sabotage Obama's Iran Deal; Demonstrations in Hungary Against an Internet Tax

October 28 - Mexico in Shock Over the Month-Long Disappearance of 43 Students; Turkey Allows Some Kurds to Join the Fight for Kobani; Unsolved Political Assassinations in Venezuela

October 26 - Justifying Poll Taxes and the Need for a Constitutional Right to Vote; The Moral Complexities of Political Assasination

October 20 - Turkey's Apparent Shift Over Kobani; Media-Stoked Fear and Paranoia Over Ebola; Turkey's Reluctance to Get Involved Militarily in Syria

October 9 - Amy Wilentz sits in for Ian Masters

October 1 - America's First Ebola Patient Provokes Hysteria; A Regional Shift Could Make a Dirty Deal with Assad Possible; Playing Catch-Up with Republicans on Dark Money Makes Hypocrites of Democrats

September 30 - An Update From Hong Kong on China's National Day; Time for the U.S. To Make a Deal With Assad; India's New Prime Minister's State Visit

September 24 - Are We Making Assad Stronger?; "Obama's Long War in the Middle East"; Secret Corporate Donors to Republican Governors Revealed

September 23 - The Khorasan Group and the Various Jihadist Factions; Has the Assad Regime Become Irrelevant?; The Gulf Between Climate Realities and Political Efforts So Far