The āstrategic rebalancingā the Obama administration has been promoting as a mid-course correction to its foreign policy remains strong on rhetoric and remarkably weak on content
No one performs Shakespeare in the theaters of Pyongyang. Instead, he is enacted in the corridors of power
The comparison has frequently been made between the experience of Roma in East-Central Europe and African Americans in the United States. Roma…
To: John Brennan, Langley HQ From: Operative 650, undisclosed location Re: Memo XP1476 Greetings from the tropics! I apologize for not writing…
The world will not end with bang or a whimper. It will end with the silent slither of jellyfish. Literally. And figuratively.…
It started as a peaceful revolt. It descended into a civil war that has so far claimed over 100,000 casualties and ejected…
I was nearly at the end of a presentation on the North Korean prison camp system, when the last person in the…
There’s no goose-stepping in the streets. There are no curfews or explicit censorship or martial law. The cafes, in fact, are full…
The “Pacific pivot” of the United States is nothing new. At the same time, it doesn‘t really exist. And yet, even though…
In the same way that the New Left in the United States distanced itself in the 1960s from the old-style Communist Party…
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