War and genocide in the former Yugoslavia will be thrust back into the spotlight this month with the release of In the Land of Blood and Honey, a film written and directed by Angelina Jolie. In often harrowing detail, the film depicts a complex, gripping story of love and deception...

On March 7, ABC will televise the 82nd Academy Awards live from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Ostensibly the Oscars are about movies. But for many people the Oscars are really about fashion. Fans and paparazzi press against the ropeline to see Hollywood's stars walk the red carpet in...

Is the Obama Administration, consumed with the domestic economic crisis, health care reform, and an increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan, doomed to preside over a steady slide in American power--to the benefit of autocratic regimes like Russia and China?

It is increasingly common to hear that...

Thursday morning Barack Obama defended his decision to close Guantanamo. Coming on the heels of the Senate's overwhelming rejection of funds to close the base, the speech was an attempt at "going public." He aimed to speak over the heads of Congress to the American people, to convince them that...