Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

	“Racial Inequality After Racism,” by Fredrick C. Harris and Robert C. Lieberman Why does racial inequality persist in a postracist America? Because of past racism, which shaped economic, social, and political institutions, so that even their race-neutral operations today produce imbalanced outcomes.
	“Syria’s President Speaks: A Conversation With Bashar al-Assad” An exclusive interview with the Syrian president, who talks about his country's civil war, peace negotiations, atrocities, terrorism, and American foreign policy.
	“The Resistible Rise of Vladimir Putin,” by Stephen Kotkin The methods Putin used to fix the corrupt, dysfunctional post-Soviet state have produced yet another corrupt, dysfunctional state—and unfortunately, there is no end to it in sight.
	“Obama’s Libya Debacle,” by Alan J. Kuperman The U.S. intervention in Libya was a complete failure. Libya has not only failed to evolve into a democracy, it has devolved into a failed state.