The Week in Blob

Pay-for-play on Afghanistan, a new WTO head, hope for Libya, and less hope for Myanmar

• Earlier this month, a major congressional report recommended that US troops should stay in Afghanistan past May 1, the withdrawal deadline that had been agreed on in negotiations with the Taliban. In Responsible Statecraft, Eli Clifton writes that about two thirds of the report’s main contributors “have current or recent financial ties to major defense …