Obama Should Restart Immigration Debate and Extend it Beyond our Borders
The Obama administration’s immigration plan should include initiatives to help create more opportunities in migrants’ home countries.
Art Event: ‘It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq’
Film Event: ‘FTA,’ with Holly Near and Phyllis Bennis
Obama to Announce Iraq Troop Withdrawal
President Obama is about to order the beginning of the end of the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq. Or is he?
Listen: Afghanistan
After eight years of deafness, the White House is now listening. When it comes to Afghanistan, we just have to speak a little louder.
A Multipolar Moment?
Will Obama’s multilateral resolve turn to stone or will his administration truly remap U.S. global relations?
What’s the Matter with China?
The problem isn’t just with China. Even after the election of Barack Obama, many are left wondering: What’s the matter with us?
Our Pirates and Theirs
Why are more than a dozen of the world’s navies converging on Somalia to battle pirates there instead of sailing into New York to capture the Wall Street pirates?
GWOT’s End?
Even if Obama holds to his word on torture, closes Guantánamo within the year, applies the same yardstick to detainees at Bagram and in Iraq, and eliminates the Clinton-era policy on extraordinary rendition, the death of the “global war on terror,” as Mark Twain once said of his own prematurely published obituary, is greatly exaggerated.
Obama’s Foreign Policy Challenges
The NewsHour online edition hosts a debate on Obama’s foreign policy appointees and the challenges facing the new administration
Bonfires for the Global Vanities
The end of the Bush administration makes real change — ending wars — possible, but only if we fight for it.
Whining About Winning in Iraq
McCain and Palin shout triumphantly, “We’re winning the war in Iraq.” Such rhetoric collides painfully with reality.
U.S.-Iraq Agreement on Maintaining U.S. Troops in Iraq
The agreement now being negotiated would continue the U.S. occupation for years, but is likely to fail.
Art of Torture
The Bush administration will forever be remembered as “the administration that tortured.”
The VP Debate: Dishonest Foreign Policies
Palin and Biden both uttered an alarming number of false and misleading statements.