Do UNESCO membership and a shift in attitude toward Iran signal a change of heart for the U.S. government?

What we have done since September 11 is not to make the hard choice of choosing which of our liberties we are willing to forego, but rather to sacrifice their liberties—those of immigrants, and especially of Arab and Muslim immigrants—for the purported security of the rest of us.

Former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee J. William Fulbright’s observations and warnings appear deeply relevant to the United States under George W. Bush, particularly in the wake of the publication last week of the administration’s sweeping National Security Strategy of the United States of America and its request that Congress authorize a war resolution arguably as broad and as unilateral as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution approved in the early stages of the Vietnam War.

Despite the IMF’s reformist rhetoric about “bailing in” foreign investors and distributing adjustment costs more equitably, there is nothing novel about the new IMF standby credit. It is once again about bailing out banks and bondholders.

Powell’s failure to obtain any assurances of further concessions by either side cannot therefore said to be a disappointment.

The current South Asian crisis seems to have ebbed, but the underlying dynamic remains.

The new IMF prescription of fiscal austerity and no capital controls makes little economic sense.

After five months of waiting, Colombians received news last week that former presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt, was indeed alive.

As a treaty that establishes a badly needed human rights standard for the treatment of women and girls, CEDAW deserves strong U.S. backing.

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed an agreement on July 30, promising to put an end to the war that has raged in Congo since 1998. However, it is too soon to rejoice.

As tensions between India and Pakistan began building late last year, high-level delegations from the United States and Britain flew in and out of New Delhi and Karachi

In the annual battles to cripple UNFPA and persistently attack USAID, the conservative right in the United States has shown no inclination for such an agenda.

Washington’s Republicans Duke it out