As I'm leaving London I'm taking a last look around, reflecting on the last four months and the transition to 2012. There are things I don't want to d...
Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so.
Who will own this young century of ours? While there is little uncertainty to China's approach, America's path is the unknown. Will it retreat and rebuild the American nation, or will it allow its 1% to continue its universal project paid for by a mortgage on the future of the 99%?
Proclaim it from the rooftops: No, America is not "over." Yet a growing accumulation of evidence suggests that America today is not the America of 1945. Everyone else on the planet understands this. Perhaps it's finally time for Americans to do so as well.
We can read about the carnage of war in A Farewell to Arms, and the power of great aspirations in For Whom the Bell Tolls, and consider what each of us can do in our times by remembering what Ernest Hemingway and so many others did in theirs.
American exceptionalism splinters, and does so quickly, when we move from serving as a shining example for others to follow, and instead turn toward enforcing our will and our way of life on the world.
It will soon be ten years since 9/11 and the effects are still with us. One of the obvious ones is the U.S. military's adventures in the rest of the w...
Hundreds of Chinese studies majors at top universities in North America have recently formed a network dedicated to forging new economic, cultural, and political links between East and West.
Whichever road ends up defining the future, Americans have to start making some rather large cognitive adjustments. We need a new vocabulary -- a new way of talking about our place in the world.
The persistence of a self-congratulatory account of American history deprives us of self-awareness, hinders our efforts to navigate the treacherous waters in which the country finds itself.
Rudy and Barack. They both came into disastrous situations, followed horrible leaders, and, in Rudy's case, turned things around. Let's hope that Barack has the same results as Rudy.
Here are the ten sources behind the most memorable lines of Obama's address.
