HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: With today’s weapons technology, danger can proliferate with much greater destructive force than our Founding Fathers could have ever anticipated. Dealing with these threats requires tremendous international cooperation.

The single most monstrous mistake of the Bush years—the confusion of military with economic power—has been set in stone.

As the secretary of state makes a historic trip to the southeast Asian nation, what is at stake?

In a momentous strategic shift, President Obama has begun a military buildup in East Asia in a foolish attempt to intimidate China. It will bring blowback, and a greater risk of war.

American politicians try not to talk about it, but it's been apparent to the Pakistani security complex for some time: the Afghan Taliban cannot be militarily defeated.

In our new landscape of imperial defeat, it’s remarkable how consistently things that are officially going so well are actually going so badly.

Unwrapping the enigma of the career diplomat who wrote the Long Telegram.

Miguel Facussé, a biofuels magnate entangled with the drug trade, is waging a bloody war against campesinos—with American support.

Think of Iraq as the AIG of wars, only this bailout is still going on.

Meet the secret bases that make up the backbone of a new American robotic way of war.