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What does this election mean for the future of the country? Are electoral politics really a mechanism for change? 

The one key way in which Romney's foreign policy differs from Obama's.

It’s taking place amid deep intraparty divisions and growing public anger over corruption.

In Black Bazaar, characters vent and stumble over their shared obsession with the colonial past.

Romney, the quintessential vulture capitalist, knows the foreign policy debate has always been about maximizing profit.

The US empire is a lesson in how not to change a changing world. 

Beneath the political debates over the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens is a history of American meddling in the country—which set the stage for the assassination.

The United States and Pakistan have become the dysfunctional nuclear family of international relations.

What are the new rules of the political game in the Middle East? Nobody knows, but Marc Lynch’s The Arab Uprising is a useful guide.

Though the Cuban Missile Crisis was fifty years ago, imperial America and the threat of nuclear war remains.