(Not Quite) 101 Things Sarah Palin Should Know About the World

Reza Aslan

Iran is not al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is not Hamas. Hamas is not Hezbollah. Hezbollah is not the Taliban ...

Author of No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (New York: Random House, 2005)

Parag Khanna

To understand the Russia that you can “see from your backyard” (as Tina Fey memorably put it), learn Chinese. The Russian Far East that is America’s neighbor might in the coming decades have a larger Chinese than Russian population as they populate and farm in the thawing Siberian countryside.

Senior research fellow in the American Strategy Program and director of the Global Governance Initiative at the New America Foundation, and author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (New York: Random House, 2008)