Certainly the President is in a bind. He needs foreign investments and tourism to get the economy back on track, but he is alienating one ally after another

While France teeters on the brink of the far right, left parties elsewhere are showing surprising strength

The time and place was vastly different, but the men who designed the war against Native Americans would be comfortable with the rationale that currently impel U.S. foreign policy

This is an administration that thrives on turmoil, always an easier place to rule from than order

Nonetheless, such a clash would be catastrophic. It would torpedo global trade, inflict trillions of dollars damage on each side, and the odds are distressingly high that the war could go nuclear

It’s possible that the EU cannot be reformed, but popular resistance could provide an alternative to disintegration

The left will have to sideline some of the disputes that divide it and reach out to new constituencies. If it does not, the right has a dangerous narrative waiting in the wings

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India and Pakistan have fought three wars over the disputed province in the past six decades and came within a hair’s breadth of a nuclear exchange in 1999

Targeted assassinations by drones, the use of torture, extra-legal renditions, and the invasions of several Muslim countries have combined to yield an unmitigated disaster