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Finally, after years of persistent effort by courageous women activists, one of the world’s most brutal dictators has been indicted.

Our rulers thought we could be panicked into a permanent state of war. They underestimated our consciousness and commitment.

Even Barack Obama knows that the political necessity to prove that he is tough on terror can have dangerous consequences for American security and his standing throughout the world.

If we value the planet, we are going to have to get cruel and blunt about defending its beautiful geography from the fossil fuel industry. 

How the demand for chocolate—yes, chocolate!—helped fuel the country's civil war.

On his first visit to the region, Obama can either establish a genuine “good neighbor” policy or, more likely, build a bloc of moderate allies to offset Venezuela in the region and China in global power politics.

Dylan’s Mr. Jones was confused by revolution; the persona of Deb Olin Unferth’s memoir is nonchalant about it.

Amidst allegations that government attorneys withheld key information while applying for wiretap permissions from federal judges, federal prosecutors in Denver dropped gang conspiracy charges against six alleged Mara Salvatrucha members.

To Ronald Reagan, the apartheid regime in South Africa was a valuable cold war ally.

The US military's reinvented counterinsurgency turns out to be the same old brutal game.