The big lie about the Libyan war. Micah Zenko remembers how the “humanitarian” intervention in Libya became a war for regime change.

Does Trump have a foreign policy? Daniel DePetris tries to figure out what the Republican front-runner’s foreign policy is.

The New Zealand flag referendum. Siobhan O’Grady reports on the outcome of New Zealand’s vote on the design of its national flag.

Monsters of our own imaginings. Stephen Walt warns against overreacting to terrorist attacks and overstating the threat from terrorist groups.

Museveni’s re-election and the future of Uganda. Peter Dörrie and Simone Schlindwein report on the implications of the re-election of Uganda’s authoritarian president.