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President Fernando Lugo's ouster was called a coup in South America. But the US didn't blink.

Fifty years later, James Donovan's "metadiplomacy" shows that normal relations are possible.

Director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering tell The Nation what the military can do to prevent sexual assault.

It wasn't easy, but artists, musicians and activists met Thatcher's brutal tactics with compassionate responses.

In every way, her agenda opposed the interests of ordinary working people. How did she get so many of them to vote against their own economic interests again and again?

Pyongyang's bellicose posturing conforms to an old pattern, but the dangers may be greater now because tensions are rising throughout the region.

This tiny nation has been pushed off a cliff to "save" the eurozone. Reunification may be the only way to turn the island's fortunes around.

The Communist Party is failing to heed demands for political reform.

In Western hands, Afghanistan didn't transition to a "free market" system—but a particularly venal form of crony capitalism.

We continue to obsess about Iran's fantasy weapons, but pay remarkably little attention to the existing nuclear weapons in the region—Israel's.