Alex Shaheen

If you’re feeling somewhere between lukewarm and irate about the 11th-hour bipartisan deal that temporarily brought the federal government back to functioning capacity Thursday, you’re not alone. I have to say, if I were lying on the floor in the ER…

Four years ago, a group of teenaged Somali pirates commandeered the American container ship Maersk Alabama bound for Mombasa, Kenya. These young men launched their raid from a Taiwanese fishing vessel that they had captured two days earlier, with…

“I missed something once before. I won’t … I can’t let that happen again.” Carrie Mathison, Homeland’s brilliant, manic-depressive anti-heroine, makes this vow to longtime mentor Saul in the series pilot, and her tenacity in uncovering the…

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin's op-ed in The New York Times provoked feelings ranging from personal indignation to physical revulsion among various U.S. government officials. But the most surprising and perhaps unprecedented aspect of…

With all the disagreements and indignant rhetoric of late between the U.S. and Russia, observers have suggested the onset of a new Cold War. But it doesn't matter if we give this chill in relations the tired label of "Cold War" or not. What does…

Over the past week, commentators on the Syrian conflict have focused the discussion on a United Nations investigation into the use of a nerve agent known as sarin. The deaths of 70,000 people by conventional weapons is horrific enough — why the…