Why all the fuss over beef? To many ordinary Koreans, the government's lifting its ban on U.S. beef is a demonstration of the way the U.S. version of "free trade" has hurt their country.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
McCain hopes that within four years of taking office, the Iraq war will be concluded. Is this a walk-back of his wish for a century-long, Korea-style military presence in Iraq.
David Flumenbaum | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
In North Korea, where political dissent is as rare as an Internet connection, the world got a taste of how China had envisioned the torch procession at all of its stops -- quiet, calm and Communist.
Harold Pollack | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
Sen. McCain promises more than our nation, or the Iraqi nation, can reasonably deliver. His rhetoric denigrates the search for painful but realistic alternatives.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
In the near future, China will eclipse the Middle East and terrorism to be our number one foreign policy challenge. Yet neither Obama nor Clinton are calling for any real change in our China policy.
Michael Giltz | Posted 11.20.2007 | Entertainment
My favorite from his British era is The Lady Vanishes. It's a pure delight and wouldn't be matched for comic elan till North By Northwest.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics
Again with the mission creep. I don't know how many times Mr. Bush has expanded our goals in Iraq, but what he's offering tonight takes it around the bend and back again.
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