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Costly technologies have opened up new sources in the Western Hemisphere—but they pose immense environmental dangers.

Why the United States needs a new national energy policy.

Obama’s rudderless foreign policy underscores America’s waning power.

The United States no longer has the capability to remain a global hegemon, and to pretend otherwise is to invite disaster.

Because of the hubris of Bush and Cheney, we face a world of multiplied dangers, emboldened challengers and a paucity of reliable allies.

Many Israelis and their American allies are sleeping through the rise of the virulently anti-Arab Avigdor Lieberman.

A G-8 plan to ramp up nuclear energy is defended as a necessary
response to global warming. But the nuclear waste it generates will hurt
people and the planet.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has been
monitoring elections in emerging democracies ever since the fall of the
Berlin wall, but now it has done something different a

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Thanks to the US-led drug war, AIDS is exploding among injection drug users.