Did Clinton Just Change US Policy on Hezbollah?
They say talk is cheap, but is it possible that recent comments by Hillary Clinton are signaling a radical change in US foreign policy?
They say talk is cheap, but is it possible that recent comments by Hillary Clinton are signaling a radical change in US foreign policy?
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.
The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...
AP | MARTHA MENDOZA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — They can't both be right. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal that could have returned him to power is d...
Newsweek | Mark Hosenball | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Your tax dollars at work: as part of their effort to stop doing business in Iraq with companies affiliated with the controversial paramilitary contrac...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
The Obama team brokered the accord in Honduras, and got a commitment from the coup leaders. If they go back on it, how much will the Obama administration's word be worth on anything else?
Spiegel Online | Gregor Peter Schmitz | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The council released a study on Monday called "Toward a Post-American Europe," based on wide-ranging interviews and research conducted in the 27 EU me...
Laura Carlsen | Posted 10.31.2009 | World
If the agreement brokered this week holds, Honduran society will have turned the ugly precedent of a modern-day military coup d'etat into an example of the strength of nonviolent grassroots resistance.
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The Iraqi refugee tragedy continues to unfold. It is time for proactive policy and action, for Americans to make friends of the people we were seeking to help by doing the right things.
David Sullivan | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 has been making news because of all the things left out of it, including billions of dollars in cuts to expensive weapons systems.
David Quigg | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The basic grim truths that Matthew Hoh wrote about in his much-quoted resignation letter were all basically true when he took his job a few months ago.
John Brown | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
The Obama-Biden team announced it would "expand cultural and arts exchanges throughout the world." But these words, despite their honorable intentions, have not resulted in much noticeable action.
Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban strongho...
McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- The $736 million new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which American diplomats have occupied for 18 months, contains "multiple significant const...
Jeff Ballinger | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Now that Michael Posner has been officially installed as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, it's about time we get started down the road to righting a whole slew of global wrongs.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Millions still have a deep respect, admiration, and appreciation for her tireless work as a women's rights advocate, her fight for health care reform, civil rights, and international diplomacy.
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to roll out a new policy toward Sudan with an eye toward engaging the government in Khartoum but als...
Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact
The U.S. State Department released a video narrated by Matt Damon in late September to YouTube, describing the world food crisis and how global climat...
Allan Gerson | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
The hunger strike of more than two dozen Iranian-Americans came to a close Thursday with the news that 36 Iranian dissidents forcibly taken by Iraqi forces had been allowed to return to their enclave north of Baghdad.
Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
The last time the Democrats ran a war, it was "Madeleine's war," when we bombed Serbia. Albright, the former secretary of state, weighs in on Obama's deliberations on Afghanistan.
Leslie Harris | Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology
In the wake of protests last week at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, the police arrested a self-professed anarchist for using Twitter to coordinate communications among G20 summit protesters.
AP | MATTHEW LEE and PAUL HAVEN | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
NEW YORK — A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officia...
Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
About a third of Foreign Service officers in jobs that require language skills don't have the proficiency required to do their jobs, hurting America's...
Diane Tucker | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
A brutal plundering of this rich cultural heritage has been taking place in broad daylight ever since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
While the the demonstrations are not violent as of now, police helicopters have started circling the area and the loud bangs of fireworks are punctuating the shouts.
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics