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Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.

A war on Iran to stop its nuclear program would bring on a proliferation catastrophe.

Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, the relationship features more elements of cold-war conflict than of stable cooperation.

Hopes for reform in Burma are starting to be fulfilled, but skepticism of its rulers is still warranted.

Can Washington move from Pacific power to Pacific partner?

In my own experience as a journalist covering this issue, the vast majority of politicians who defend capital punishment do so out of rank opportunism.

Why did different segments of the Soviet population experience Khrushchev’s reforms in radically different ways?
 

Maine Governor Paul LePage's secret removal of a mural celebrating the state's labor history is just one in a long line of struggles over publicly-funded depictions of American workers.

The news media these days look to outperform one another in their showings of concern for the lost battalion of America’s unemployed. Consult any newspaper, wander the Internet or the television talk-show circuit, and at the top of the column or the hour the headline is jobs.

Why we can’t bring ourselves to discuss the worst that could happen at the Fukushima nuclear complex?