By Will Marshall and Jim Arkedis

Public support for free trade these days is not exactly robust, with the recession and the unrelenting erosion of U.S. manufacturing jobs. To a significant extent, Americans’ attitudes about trade and globalization depend on their confidence that the rules of world commerce are both...

It's no exaggeration to say that President Obama is unquestionably the most popular politician - if not person - in Europe. Last July, he hardly lifted a finger and some 100,000 people turned up to hear him speak in a Berlin park. January's historic inauguration underlined his European stardom -...

Pop quiz - who would you vote for prime minister in Israel's February 10th election? Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak, or Benyamin Netanyahu?

While you think of your answer, here's a very quick resume of each:

Tzipi Livni is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs and leader of the moderate...

The better question is "should they?"

This past Sunday on Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw asked President-elect Obama whether India had the right of "hot pursuit" to go after terrorists in Pakistan.

Many Americans are likely to respond with a "hell yeah". And you'd think that Obama would be...