Saturday, October 17, 2020
When U.S.-led coalition forces managed to ferret out the remnants of Islamic State (ISIS) from their strongholds throughout Syria, many hoped the seven-year-long civil war, which began in 2011 with protests against the Assad regime, would finally grind to a halt (1, 2). But if the first few months of […]
Boom and bust You can use it to buy a pizza, rent a hotel room, or pay for a bounty of illegal drugs. It’s public but anonymous, volatile but limited in supply, wildly popular but hardly well understood. If you had bought $1,000 worth in 2010 and held on to […]
MBS makes his move November 4th unleashed a whirlwind of events involving Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East. The storm broke when Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, known as MBS, orchestrated the arrests of multiple princes, businessmen, construction magnates, and officials, in what the regime […]