Robert Dreyfuss, a Nation contributing editor, is an investigative journalist specializing in politics and national security. He is the author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam and is a frequent contributor to Rolling Stone, The American Prospect and Mother Jones.
The clampdown on street protests can't disguise huge fissures among the elite.
Is Obama's dialogue with Iran already doomed?
For the first time in six years, there's light at the end of the tunnel in Iraq. A nationalist Shiite-Sunni alliance provides a perfect opportunity for Obama to accelerate the withdrawal of US forces.
When Obama needs a hammer, National Security Adviser James Jones will provide one.
Obama calls Afghanistan "the right war." But sending more US troops into the quagmire will only make the crisis worse.
Will Obama make good on his promise to end the war in Iraq?
A new and growing Sunni resistance movement in Iraq could shatter the false sense of post-surge calm--and it might get Russian support.
He's no George W. Bush, but will Obama's foreign policy bring us back to the days of the bipartisan, establishment consensus?
Iranians' attitudes toward Ahmadinejad range from sullen tolerance to bitter hostility.
The Nobel Prize-winning activist says US threats, regime-change rhetoric and efforts to promote democracy only give Iran's leaders an excuse to intensify repression.


