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In the weeks leading up to the Iraq war, neoconservatives in and around the Bush Administration counseled the President against seeking a second United Nations Security Council resolution, arguin

For those who know Haitian history, this has been a time of eerie, unhappy déjà vu.

Iran's elections, scheduled for February 20, have provoked the gravest political crisis in that country in twenty years.

Most Americans take their system of government for granted, as if Moses himself had delivered the Constitution engraved on marble tablets.

True democracy could still come to Iraq.

You can't go home again.

The call by George W. Bush for major reform of our failed immigration policy was undoubtedly made with election-year eyes fixed on the growing Latino vote.

Saddam Hussein's capture on December 13 ended the role of the minority Sunni Arabs as Iraq's ruling group since 1638, when the Sunni Ottoman Turks captured Mesopotamia (then comprising Baghdad an

After twenty-one tension-filled days of raucous speeches, poetry readings, threats, bribery and walkouts, Afghanistan's loya jirga, held to endorse a new Constitution for Afghanistan after

Until there is a legitimate government in Iraq, it's unclear whether any new oil deals will stand.