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Barack Obama

As the infrastructure of many U.S. cities crumbles, the Pentagon continues to pump over a billion dollars into military bases throughout the Middle East. 

Bradley Manning

As people who have devoted our lives to forging a more peaceful and just world, we salute Manning's courage and condemn his treatment at the hands of the government.

Barack Obama

What does this election mean for the future of the country? Are electoral politics really a mechanism for change? 

The one key way in which Romney's foreign policy differs from Obama's.

It’s taking place amid deep intraparty divisions and growing public anger over corruption.

Alain Mabanckou

In Black Bazaar, characters vent and stumble over their shared obsession with the colonial past.

Romney, the quintessential vulture capitalist, knows the foreign policy debate has always been about maximizing profit.

President Barack Obama

The US empire is a lesson in how not to change a changing world. 

Libyan security forces

Beneath the political debates over the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens is a history of American meddling in the country—which set the stage for the assassination.

The United States and Pakistan have become the dysfunctional nuclear family of international relations.

Blogs

Lots of candidates, real politics in Iran.

May 17, 2013

McCain seems worried by the idea of peace, and the State Department refuses to rule out a role for Iran.

May 15, 2013

He might be wrong about Benghazi—but Gregory Hicks is still a whistleblower and he shouldn’t be retaliated against. 

May 10, 2013

Congressional progressives held an important hearing on Capitol Hill this week, urging more transparency from the adminsitration about its drone policy.

May 9, 2013

It just might work. But the bombs-away crowd isn’t happy.

May 8, 2013

How else would we be safe?

May 7, 2013

The New York Times and its columnists push unproven chemical claims as Israeli assaults begin.

May 6, 2013

The president needs to seek a cease-fire and a political accord.

May 6, 2013

Polls show Americans overwhelmingly oppose US action in Syria, 62-24.

May 1, 2013

The New York Times blows the cover off the Syrian rebel movement.

April 29, 2013
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