China is experimenting with “soft power” approaches to its restive minority populations, but brute force remains an omnipresent threat.
Our National Security State Knows Everything about You but Nothing about the World
Americans are trading away their privacy, civil liberties, and billions of tax dollars for an intelligence complex that never seems to know what’s going on in the world.
Meet the Polish Activists on the Cutting Edge of a Possible Left Resurgence in Eastern Europe
Can Poland’s resurgent activist-intellectuals steal the thunder from the right and appeal to millions of Europeans orphaned by the economic crisis?
Factionalism and Totalitarianism Are the Scylla and Charybdis of the Arab World
Is instability in the Arab world irreversible?
Scotland, Nationalism, and Freedom
The Scottish people will expect the promises that British Prime Minister David Cameron made to be delivered.
India and China’s Pragmatism Challenge U.S. Superpower Status
India and China’s Pragmatism Challenge U.S. Superpower Status
The Fight to Keep Toxic Mining—and the World Bank—Out of El Salvador
Hundreds of protesters recently gathered at the World Bank to shame a gold mining firm’s shakedown of one of Central America’s poorest countries.
While We March for the Climate, Governments Meet with Polluters
As climate activists converge on New York, world leaders will meet behind closed doors with corporate honchos who bank on fossil fuels.
The Tao of North Korea
Forget those black-and-white satellite photos—North and South Korea are more alike than many suppose, and they’re slowly growing closer.
Foreign Policy, Lord Palmerston, and Appendectomies
The U.S. cannot confront climate change, growing economic inequality, and the deterioration of our infrastructure and education system without reducing the $1 trillion it spends annually on defense.