Greg Myre appears in the following:
How The Iran Nuclear Deal Could Reshape The Middle East
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Is it a good deal?
President Obama and his detractors are headed for a ferocious debate on this question following the nuclear agreement announced Tuesday in Vienna between Iran and six world powers.
The evidence likely will trickle in over an extended period. What's certain is that the narrow and ...
Greece By The Numbers
Wednesday, July 08, 2015
The Greek crisis is messy and complicated, filled with nebulous terms being casually tossed around. Most every story has obligatory mentions of "austerity," "bailouts" and "capital controls," but it can be difficult to determine what, precisely, all that jargon means.
So let's stick to the numbers. Here's a primer on ...
What's Next For Greece?
Monday, July 06, 2015
Greeks waved flags and danced in the streets after they overwhelmingly voted to reject further austerity measures from their international creditors. But now comes the reckoning, as Greece faces the realities of an economy out of money and creditors out of patience.
Here are some of the fundamental questions:
When ...
Afghan Schools: Is The Success Story Exaggerated?
Thursday, June 18, 2015
In Afghanistan's rough and ragged reconstruction, one of the most frequently cited bright spots has been the surge in Afghan kids going to school.
When the Taliban were ousted in 2001, fewer than 1 million Afghans were in the classroom, and a minuscule number were girls. In recent years, the ...
A Report Card On Global Cooperation: Decent On Iran, Lousy In Syria
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
The past year has been a bleak one in global affairs: The relentless carnage in Syria. Russia's annexation of Crimea. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Is there anything to applaud?
The coordinated international pressure on Iran, which has led to detailed negotiations on the country's nuclear program, was one ...
Just Before Deadline, Israel's Netanyahu Forms New Government
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
With a deadline looming Wednesday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cobbled together a new coalition government that gives him the bare minimum of parliamentary seats needed to govern, according to news reports.
The deal assures Netanyahu of a fourth term as prime minister, but it is not the ...
Measuring Earthquakes With More Than Just One Scale
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
When a major earthquake pummeled Kobe, Japan, in 1995, more than 6,000 people were killed, many buried as their traditional wooden homes collapsed under the weight of heavy, unstable tile roofs.
The quake's power was extraordinary and demonstrated Japan wasn't as prepared as it thought it was. Still, it was ...
Iraq's Leader Finds Friends In Washington, But Faces Battles At Home
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Drone Strike Reportedly Kills Al-Qaida Leader In Yemen
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, who had joined al-Qaida after his release, was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, the group said in a statement Tuesday.
Ibrahim al-Rubaish had fought in Afghanistan before being arrested and held in Guantanamo. He would go on to be one of the ...
Obama's Remarks On Nuclear Deal Provide Fuel For Critics
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
Can Obama Turn Pariahs Into Partners?
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
President Obama is lobbying hard for a full-fledged nuclear deal with Iran. He hopes to raise the U.S. flag at an embassy in Cuba before he leaves office. He traveled to Myanmar last fall as he moves to normalize relations.
Obama's tenure has been marked by this outreach ...
The Iranian Nuclear Talks: It Isn't Just About The Nukes
Thursday, April 02, 2015
The Iranian nuclear negotiations have focused on one very big and specific question: Will a deal make it harder for Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon?
But the talks are also part of President Obama's much broader quest to repair the fractured relations between the U.S. and Iran, one defined ...
After A Tough Election, Israel's Netanyahu Looks To Ease Tensions
Friday, March 27, 2015
During a tough Israeli election campaign, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to antagonize, among others, the White House, Israel's Arab citizens and the Palestinians.
Now that Netanyahu's Likud Party has come out on top, the prime minister has sought to ease tensions with a series of gestures.
The latest ...
How Yemen's Chaos Stretches Beyond Its Borders
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Yemen's downward spiral toward civil war is a disaster for the poorest country in the Arab world and adds one more member to the growing list of Middle East states that have imploded in the past several years.
But how important is Yemen to the wider world?
One argument holds ...
Netanyahu's Campaign Puts Him On The Path To Confrontation
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
During his campaign, Benjamin Netanyahu aggressively opposed the negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, ruled out a Palestinian state on his watch, and argued that Israel would be best served by a government of the right.
If Netanyahu now cobbles together the coalition government he wants, his fourth term as Israel's ...
Taking U.S. Politics Beyond 'The Water's Edge'
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
In the spring of 1948, Arthur Vandenberg was a powerful Republican senator from Michigan with ambitions of unseating a vulnerable Democratic president, Harry Truman, in November of that year.
Vandenberg had considerable influence as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a moment when the U.S. was reordering a ...
After Netanyahu's Speech, A Reality Check
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Since first becoming prime minister in 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu has hammered away at Iran's nuclear program, calling it the greatest threat to Israel. Yet Tuesday's speech to Congress, like many before it, sharply criticized the international response to Iran while offering relatively little as an alternative.
As a ...
Less Than A Day Old, Bahrain News Channel Is Yanked Off The Air
Monday, February 02, 2015
A new pan-Arab television channel, Al-Arab, began broadcasting Sunday afternoon from the Gulf nation of Bahrain. By dawn Monday, it was off the air.
"Broadcast stopped for technical and administrative reasons. We will be back soon, inshallah [God willing]," the news channel wrote Monday on its Twitter feed.
Al-Arab's apparent ...
What's Going On In Yemen?
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Even in the best of times, it's hard to tell if anyone is in control of Yemen.
It's a particularly pressing question Tuesday amid reports that Shiite Houthi rebels have seized the presidential palace in the poor, unstable nation at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Some government ...
What World Leaders Say, And What They Do
Monday, January 12, 2015
Plenty of world leaders have condemned the deadly attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, and a fair number took part in a rally held Sunday in Paris.
But as is always the case, it's much easier to condemn actions abroad than critically examine one's record at home.
"On ...