
Max Fisher
Former Vox Staff
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The crash seems likely to damage Egypt’s already-frail tourism industry in ways that even the revolution and its violence did not.


The then-celebrated 2002 State of the Union actively harmed US foreign policy.


A new study shows how Assad did something other Mideast despots couldn’t: kept his officer corps from joining the uprising.


Why China and Taiwan have been at conflict for 70 years and what this weekend’s meeting means for it.


Who is fighting whom and why in Syria.


There may have been a window for the US to act in Syria. Here’s how Obama let it close.


Does America’s fundamental optimism put it at odds with Israel?


His answer includes a lot of propaganda, but also something realer: fear.


Bashar al-Assad’s first trip abroad since the war began is an opening for Syria’s military to do the right thing.


“What we’re seeing here are the seeds of transformation of a national political conflict that can be solved into a religious conflict that cannot be solved.”