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The Honduran elections were far from free, fair or peaceful, and the country now faces a deeper political crisis than before voters went to the polls.

We learned so much, at such cost, in Vietnam. Why must we learn it all again in Afghanistan?

Roberto Micheletti has agreed to a plan to end the country's political impasse. But the coup government is already looking for loopholes.

On her first trip to India, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got some promises and some pushback on climate change and nuclear weapons.

All the candidates reject Bush's disasters--but that won't be enough for the next administration.

An honest account of the referendum cuts through neoliberal propaganda and looks at what's really at stake.

The peaceful transfer of power in Cuba presents an opportunity for the US government to abandon its policy of perpetual hostility.

When liberals and conservatives discuss the United States' role in the
world, they are really talking about the narcissism of small
differences. Two new books show how both sides share a conviction in
American exceptionalism.

The former Secretary of State says he and his department's top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but this made little difference to President Bush.