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Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel and NYU's Stephen Cohen join MSNBC's Morning Joe to explore whether Russia and US foreign interests are at odds.

The protests throughout Egypt are more about getting Mubarak out than anything else.

WikiLeaks is not the one-off creation of a solitary genius, and with or without Julian Assange, it is not going away.

The recently released report of the Afghanistan Study Group affirms The Nation's long-held belief that American military disengagement in Afghanistan, combined with a new diplomatic effort to ensure regional stability, is the best way forward for the war-torn country.

On the American left, there's no consensus about how to respond to China's emergence. Confront China or accommodate? Slam China with tariffs or invite it to build in the US? And what about human rights? Robert Dreyfuss talks to progressives about what the country's rapid rise means for the Chinese—and for Americans.

For his article China in the Driver's Seat, Robert Dreyfuss talked to dozens of progressive academics, journalists and policy-makers about the rise of the new economic superpower. Here, find links to excerpts from interviews with Carolyn Bartholomew, Andy Stern, James Galbraith, and more.

President Obama's attempt to put the best face on the ignominious US occupation of Iraq will not hide what he and the rest of the world well know.

Nine reasons Democrats should embrace immigration reform this year.

Traveling along the Danube into the heart of the new Europe.