New perspectives on how history is made
In the 1960s, America competed with the Soviet Union for influence in the Arab world. Is it back to the future for diplomacy in the Middle East?
The White House says the intelligence community kept them in the dark on the wiretapping of foreign leaders. That's ridiculous.
President Obama has made it clear: even after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, there will still be drone strikes.
Pundits are proclaiming a new American isolationism... and they've been doing so since before the end of World War II.
Muslims may become a demographic majority in twenty-first Russia ... but the Kremlin's xenophobic response isn't helping matters.
For a Western academic, publishing in China is a painful process of back-and-forth between editors and authors. Just like everywhere else.
Why Washington can't stop militarizing the planet.
Disaster capitalism on the battlefield and in the boardroom.
The Arab Spring, Iranian sanctions, the Syrian civil war, and the fall of the Brotherhood in Egypt have all strengthened the Israeli strategic position.
The unrelenting hostility to Israel in the greater Middle East continues.
Recently-unearthed barrels lift the lid on one of the Pentagon’s best-kept Vietnam War secrets -- the storage of military defoliants in Japan.
How the Pentagon is using your tax dollars to turn Italy into a launching pad for the wars of today and tomorrow.
Saudi Arabia is a wealthy country, with vast tracts of land and part of the Arab world. Why shouldn't Syrian refugees go there instead of Germany?
Two words: global warming.
America is not exceptional when we commit to martial virtues; America is exceptional when we commit ourselves to liberty.
The American exceptionalism sweepstakes.
How the security state’s mania for secrecy will create you.
Will future historians speak of the "Iraq Syndrome"?
The Kerry-Lavrov agreement may be the inflection point when the U.S. stops being the sole superpower.
Syria should be a wake-up call for all nations: weapons of mass destruction are dangerous by their very nature.
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