The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) challenges the illegal and ineffective U.S. policy of going to war against alleged chemical-weapons-possessing countries.
Regions / North America
In the face of escalating repression, Honduran indigenous groups are standing against transnational plunder.
In turning its back on big business, the Tea Party Caucus may have taken an important step in freeing itself from the influence of big money.
The U.S. government should transfer Abu Anas al-Libi to the United States for a civilian trial in federal court.
A mindless, voracious invasive species threatens to take over politics as surely as the maritime version took over the Black Sea.
From sanctions to Snowden to drones.
There's still no credible evidence that the NSA's massive digital surveillance has disrupted any terrorist plots.
The destructive battle about Obamacare is not a symptom of democracy itself, but of the American brand.
It's time to relegate the bankrupt counterinsurgency doctrine into the “dustbin of history.”
After all the weeping and gnashing of teeth over Snowden, another leak causes U.S. intelligence greater grief.