While the U.S. delays, China is moving to lead in technologies that are innovative and clean.
Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Remarkably, Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future. It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other.
Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN's John King Sunday on State Of ...
Robert Fuller | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living
Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.
nytimes.com | WILLIAM J. BROAD | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
In the early 1980s, according to newly released documents, Fidel Castro was suggesting a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States, until Moscow...
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Medvedev claimed Stalin saved Europe from Hitler. But the facts tell us a different story. Stalin was an even worse mass murderer than Hitler by a factor of three or four.
William Bradley | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.
Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
Jacob Zuma, current president of the African National Congress and the leading candidate in South Africa's presidential election Wednesday, is quite t...
Murray Fromson | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
From the podium of the National Assembly in Ankara, Obama spoke not only to Turks, but to the entire Muslim world and he carved out an image of a global statesman.
Tomdispatch.com | By Tom Engelhardt | Posted 03.08.2009 | World
It is now a commonplace -- as a lead article in the New York Times's Week in Review pointed out recently -- that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empi...
Eric Margolis | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
Releasing Cuba from 50 years of prison could be one of President Barack Obama's most sensible, easiest, and most applauded early acts.
AP | ONDREJ HEJMA | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — A document written by the Czech Communist police claims that Milan Kundera _ author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Bei...
Krisztina Holly | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
Whenever I ponder an opportunity in the face of convention and skepticism, I will remember to look to my father's fearless optimism for inspiration.
Jonathan Lash | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green