Piracy in the Gulf of Aden might seem like a pebble dropping, but the ripples may be felt everywhere.
Emma Belcher | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
Despite squandering widespread global sympathy and much-needed support for U.S. foreign policy since 9/11, the Bush administration's Proliferation Security Initiative has been a foreign-policy coup.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics
The situation in Afghanistan weighs more and more heavily on us. I took it up in a Huffington Post piece a while back titled Could Barack Obama Suffer...
Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics
Intelligence officials are warning that the deepening global financial crisis could weaken fragile governments in the world's most dangerous areas and...
Diane Francis | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
The United States cannot afford to take any risks. President Obama, and his family, must live in a bubble all their days in office. Handshaking, baby-kissing and plunging into crowds must be forbidden.
Donna and Ed Bassett | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home
We haven't been hit domestically again by terrorists because of the work of dedicated men and women, domestic and foreign, who have kept us safe -- in spite of the Bush Administration, not because of it.
Margee Ensign | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living
"It's not about lipstick", said my 86 year old mother. "We didn't fight all these years so that women could be involved in public affairs, to have a debate about lipstick."
Leslie Harris | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
This privacy nightmare was born one on the one hand of bad legislation, abusive surveillance tactics and politically-motivated fear mongering, and on dramatic changes in technology on the other.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
McCain has been tweaking his P.O.W. story, with some variation, for many years. For Democrats, critiquing its overuse is too little, too late.
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.26.2008 | Media
The most disjointed element of Monday's visual convention coverage involved the media exploiting the security angle.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 08.11.2008 | Living
Secure job, a home of my own, health insurance. These things are harder and harder to come by today so it's a good thing I never wanted them. I'm with Helen Keller, security is mostly a superstition, like stepping on a crack in the sidewalk to break one's mother's back.
The Real News | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
McCain's belief that Iran is going to hand weapons over to terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah is unlikely because the Iranian government is fully aware that other countries could identify Iran as the provider.
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A car bomb ripped through a busy commercial street in a Shiite area of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 51 people and wounding sco...
Sandy Tolan | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics
Obama's pledge that "Jerusalem must remain undivided" is a smackdown to decades of Palestinians' dreams and demands that East Jerusalem be the capital of their own state.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The next and perhaps last big debate on Iraq War policy has come into focus in recent weeks, as the Bush administration has made several moves to secu...
236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The holiday season is not all about fun, family and suicidal thoughts. It's also about traveling. In order to relieve the annual stress of overcrowded...
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics