Foreign Policy in Focus

In the current crisis on the Korean peninsula, the Obama administration is virtually repeating the 2004 Bush playbook.

France is the ninth country in Europe and fourteenth in the world to legalize gay marriage.

In a week of remarkable events and reversals in Guatemala, the genocide trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt came to an abrupt halt on April 18.

Members of the Seleka rebel movement continue to loot local homes and businesses, instigate violence, and recruit children to their ranks.

President Obama called their use a “game changer.”

Despite reservations, both Washington and Paris have decided that, when it comes to Tunisia, the horse they are going to ride is the Ennahda party.

Only North Koreans can change North Korea.

Hasn’t Chechen separatists’ beef always been with Russia?

Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat is one of many reminders that the modern economy has not transcended the realities of undercompensated manual toil.

From the alternative energy that’s not so alternative to victory for Iran.

The opportunity to redesign U.S. policy towards Cuba will not last forever.

Why hasn’t anyone taken responsibility for the attack yet?

“There was a very peculiar alliance between the punk music scene and the intellectuals, who tried to justify the appearance of this punk music.”

The ending of the wars is coinciding with a broader defense downsizing.

Afghan militias created by the United States have been accused of committing serious human rights abuses against local populations.

The best way to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing is by preventing its re-occurrence.

Of every tax dollar the federal government collects, 26.5 cents goes to the Pentagon.

Tunisia and the International Monetary Fund.

The U.S. needs to come up with a new and different Pacific pivot that places peace and prosperity on the Korean peninsula at the top of the list of priorities.

Emphasis, as always, added.