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According to U.S., Islamic State May Not Be Worth a Strategy

Washington may still be wedded to thinking of the Islamic State as a second-rate threat that only needs tactics, not a strategy, to defeat it.

In the post-Cold War era, the right and even some on the left are playing a new game of “Who’s your favorite dictator?”

If they wanted to, members of Congress could share the secret TPP text with the American people. Here’s how.

Though you may remember its tragic conclusion: the downing of an Iran airliner by the U.S. warship Vincennes.

Intervention may not be the answer, but the damage that the Islamic State wreaks on the regions it rules requires immediate action.

Even as the U.S. and Europe reach out to Belarus amid tensions with Russia, the country is resurrecting controversial Soviet-era policies.

The green group Zofi revitalized the environmental movement in Hungary.

For the wildlife and ecosystems of the Arctic, war has already arrived.

Jeffrey Sterling learned the hard way that the feds will throw the book at anyone who embarrasses them.

The Islamic State is less a product of Islamist extremism than the legacy of Saddam Hussein.