January 21, 2016 | A region at war, a rash of terrorist attacks, and the worst refugee crisis since World War II: These are the legacies of America’s quarter-century-and-counting war in Iraq.
January 30, 2015 | "American Sniper" is well acted, slickly produced, and occasionally gripping. It's also war propaganda.
November 20, 2013 | A proposed canal in Nicaragua, built by China, is a tangible signal that the United States can't set the terms of the world economy forever.
March 20, 2013 | An organization intended, in part, to assess coastal protection and geo-hazards seems, instead, to be working on behalf of Lockheed Martin.
June 22, 2012 | Can a new book help shake the world's indifference to North Korea's prison camps?
June 8, 2012 | A new book explores Eisenhower's private feelings about Communist China.
May 28, 2012 | Japan is about to replace its nuclear plants with something just as risky.
May 18, 2012 | A new book looks at a small island's outsized influence.
April 30, 2012 | Nature is the best model for human security, according to a new book by a marine ecologist.
March 5, 2012 | If NAFTA is any indication, the TPPA will open up the islands of the South Pacific to tremendous exploitation.