Foreign Affairs Roundup
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: End of START and A New Beginning for Disarmament SI Analysis: An agreement on a follow-up treaty to the 1...
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: End of START and A New Beginning for Disarmament SI Analysis: An agreement on a follow-up treaty to the 1...
A new exploitative media low was reached this week when the New York Post featured a front page story on Tiger Woods for something like the 19th strai...
15 years after Rwanda was completely devastated, it is being recognized as a regional leader. What can we learn from Rwanda's experience that could be applied in Afghanistan?
As a naturalized citizen, I hold dual citizenships, and dual political points of view that see two presidents.
Afghans do not want to become wards of the United States. We want to be equal partners. We want to cooperate with the U.S. in political and diplomatic arenas to ensure the rule of law in our country.
On today's Wilshire & Washington, we ask the question: Who's on top, the MSM or Digital Media? Who's leading the discussion, why, and is it a good thi...
Not unlike America's too-big-to-fail financial institutions, U.S. foreign clients tend to make their strategic calculations based not on what Washington says, but on what Washington does.
Turkey will be instrumental in advancing Obama's non-proliferation agenda as regards Iran. In sum, it is a state upon which Obama's legacy depends.
AFP reports that a NATO airstrike from a helicopter gunship killed three civilian men and wounded a woman in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. NATO's I...
We cannot get away from the romanticism of war -- indeed, we romanticize it every day, even as we curse the notion. And this war is epic, to be sure. Think back to the first act in this play.
The Left loses key battles because most Americans don't understand the very basics of American democracy--especially that we do not have a parliament.
It would seem to be in Obama's interest to make good on the US's global AIDS promises: save a lot of lives, and keep some key allies happy.
We could have directed the $30 billion in surge expenditures toward assisting refugees from Afghanistan or building, furnishing and equipping enough schools for the entire nation.
Walking the streets of this ancient and haunting city, imbibing its culture and recalling its history, one can easily recognize why it suffers from a condition that can only be described as "perpetual dysfunction."
The man who said he was going to challenge the system, fight corporate lobbyists and change the system now appears to be fighting for the status quo and corporate America at every turn.
House Democrat Michael Capuano shocked House Democrats at their weekly Caucus meeting recently when he flatly told them they're screwed. Capuano was...
I thought I knew what the U.S. should do in Afghanistan, until I made a trip there with a small group organized by Code Pink. This is Part 1 of a ser...
Back in 2003, when I put together the collection of essays Power Trip on the emerging foreign policy of the Bush administration, the big debate was ov...
If you're anything like me -- living in this mad, mad world of information overload -- it may be difficult to look back at 2009 and remember the big news stories that defined this year.
Anyone who watched Face The Nation on Sunday morning knew what was going down on health care reform in the Senate this week. It's one of the reasons m...
Obama's Nobel lecture might have showed us that the US has reached a turning point: either the national security monster we've created is going to eat us alive by bankrupting the country or we're going to have to shift course.