Foreign Policy in Focus

The United States needs to halt its assistance to Bahrain until the country implements promised democratic reforms.

If right wingers are going to purge “ethnic studies” from America’s textbooks, then they’ll have to purge history too.

From the decline in democracy to the rise in the price of peace.

A study by the Heritage Foundation maintained that Hispanic immigrants are deficient in I.Q. and thus disposed to rely on “government handouts.”

Iraqi demonstrators are now taking matters into their own hands.

What can we do in Syria? Unfortunately, not much.

As the Guantanamo hunger strike widens, the president deflects blame.

The Pentagon controls a huge collection of global military bases. The question is: Who is benefiting?

Developments on the Korean peninsula will almost certainly influence calculations made in Washington and Tehran.

Nuclear missile officers jobs weigh heavy on them but not for the reasons you’d think.

The construction of an expensive new plutonium pit facility has been abandoned. Will it be replaced a collection of smaller buildings?

In order to qualify for the next loan installment, Prime Minister Coelho must convince the European Union and the IMF that he can make draconian cuts.

It’s time for us to grow up in our assessments of North Korea.

Too many states, large and small, see themselves as having a vested interest in Syria’s outcome.

What if the unipolar moment turns out to be a planetary moment in which previously distinct imperial events fuse into a single disastrous system?

North Korea policymakers must look beyond the nuclear issue to consider the human rights of the population.

Theoretically Pakistan is poised to respond to Indian military retaliation for a terrorist strike with tactical nukes.

The U.S. government needs to develop a unified national security budget that allows the president and the Congress to make trade-offs like these.

To concerns about human error in nuclear launch control add moodiness.

Come off it–Cuba is not a ‘state sponsor of terrorism.’