• Alex Thurston

The US, which has misread the political situation in Somalia before, is again pursuing short-term military gains there at the risk of long-term blowback.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How a political song about the aftermath of the Cold War, refugees and statelessness was defanged, first for FIFA and then for Coca Cola.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Here's some things I did not have the time to blog about properly or link to this past week. It's Weekend Special.