Foreign Policy in Focus

This commonsense guide to avoiding the fiscal swindle would nearly eliminate the budget deficit while making the United States more equitable, green, and secure.

There are good reasons to be cynical about the return of the PRI in Mexico. Even so, when it comes to human rights in Mexico, there’s plenty of room for improvement.

Burma — from its president to its Nobel laureate — has failed to address Buddhist violence in its Rakhine state against Muslim Rohingyas.

Just because the cliche that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires is repeated ad nauseam doesn’t mean it’s not true.

The rules aren’t broken–they’re fixed.

Soon after the 2006 war with Lebanon, it became clear that Israel’s Achilles heel was the fear that demoralized its population.

The military disparity between Israel and Gaza is but the most violent among many.

USAID spending often means less security and more violence against women, particularly women human rights defenders.

Extremist Islamist militants also sow confusion about the intentions of the Pakistani state and military.

War semantics are not just semantics.

The climate conference in Doha is a diplomatic charade masquerading as a serious climate negotiation.

Nothing is sadder than dying at the hands of those you’re sworn to protect.

Only a policy of sustained affirmative action can address ingrained gender imbalances in Somalia.

It’s one thing to intercept a Hamas rocket, another to shoot down an inter-continental ballistic missile.

Steadfast diplomatic and military U.S. support helped enable Israeli violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza.

Africa is wealthy in oil, gas, iron, aluminum and rare metals.

Either the Israelis and Palestinians will move towards peace or towards more war — there is no in-between.

David Petraeus was always smoke and mirrors, always the farce, even if the denizens of Washington didn’t know it.

Just as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq, the CIA and U.S. military act on bad intel when designating targets for drone attacks.

It is impossible for American Jews to participate in their own communities without endorsing the atrocities perpetrated by Israel against Arabs.