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Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Hazem el-Beblawi

Precious few political parties have spoken out against the military or its assault on the Muslim Brotherhood.

Kerry and Netanyahu

It’s considering a bill that would estrange millions of Palestinian-Americans from their families and their illegally occupied homeland.

Vladimir Putin

The Weekly Standard's assault on my article is a quintessential example of cold-war thinking and debased discourse.

A wave of anti-gay laws have brought Russia’s LGBT movement into the international spotlight, but activists are divided over strategies, including proposed boycotts.

President Barack Obama at UN

Eight exceptional(ly dumb) American achievements of the twenty-first century.

Free Syrian Army soldiers

Before there was a civil war and before Syria became the world’s chessboard, there was a peaceful uprising for freedom and dignity.

Protest against NYPD surveillance

Americans remain mostly blind to the abusive treatment of terror suspects on US soil.

Edward Snowden

Protecting the whistleblower who laid bare the uglier sides of the American administration.

Blogs

But the rest of the world knows that the United States has been checkmated.

September 16, 2013

The humanitarian New York Times columnist remains devoted to military intervention in Syria.

September 15, 2013

This week: the plight of Syrian refugees, the forgotten immigration bill, and a chance encounter with Donald Rumsfeld.

September 13, 2013

Prof. Stephen F. Cohen goes on HuffPost Live to promote diplomacy with Russia.

September 13, 2013

Eric on the best TV series you have never heard of; and Reed on the sad state of republican politics.

September 13, 2013

The late Saul Landau spent years investigating the assassination in Washington, DC, of his friend, Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean foreign minister. What he found pointed right back to DC.

September 13, 2013

With the imminent threat of a US military intervention seemingly receding, the world's focus should be on aiding the increasingly desperate Syrian population.

September 12, 2013

Elizabeth O'Bagy’s brief tenure as an “expert” on Syrian rebels comes to an inglorious end.

September 12, 2013

Declassified documents reveal the complicity of the Nixon administration in Allende’s ouster.

September 11, 2013

The tragedy of September 11, 1973 belongs not just to the Chileans. It belongs also to the military coup’s enablers—the taxpayers of the United States.

September 11, 2013
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