In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important.

Michael Rubin reviews Losing the Golden Hour: An Insider's View of Iraq's Reconstruction by James Stephenson.

A review of James Fallows's Blind into Baghdad.

Rubinomics held that the economy boomed in 1993because tax increases turned the deficit into a surplus. However, it's always the private sector that is responsible for prosperity.

The fight against terrorism is no closer to success today than it was a decade ago when, in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, President George W. Bush declared a Global War on Terrorism.

A review of Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800, edited by Vanessa Martin.

An Iraq of Its Regions is a unique work that should become the handbook for any serious discussion of Iraqi regionalism.

Remaining silent is not neutral; it is casting a vote for the status quo, including the primacy of the supreme leader and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.