Foreign Policy

Why Romney is Attacking Obama for Comments to Medvedev Why Romney is Attacking Obama for Comments to Medvedev

Republicans want to portray President Obama as an insincere typical politician. 

Apr 3, 2012 / Ben Adler

Data Mining You Data Mining You

How the intelligence community is creating a new American world.

Apr 3, 2012 / Tom Engelhardt

In Defense of Peter Beinart

In Defense of Peter Beinart In Defense of Peter Beinart

Beinart's The Crisis of Zionism tells a series of important truths about Israel, the occupation and the American Jewish establishment. 

Mar 30, 2012 / Dana Goldstein

Jeffrey Sachs: Population Controller? (VIDEO) Jeffrey Sachs: Population Controller? (VIDEO)

Jeff Sachs, who promises he’d lead the World Bank to a new era, proposes more of the same—plus population control. That’s taking us to a new era of Malthus.

Mar 16, 2012 / Laura Flanders

David Grossman Speaks Out Against War With Iran David Grossman Speaks Out Against War With Iran

Addressing the issue publicly for the first time, Israel’s leading novelist says an attack would set in motion a “nightmare."

Mar 14, 2012 / Larry Derfner

War as the President’s Private Preserve War as the President’s Private Preserve

Obama breaks new ground when it comes to war with Iran.

Mar 12, 2012 / Tom Engelhardt

We Take Care of Right-Wing Nonsense about Bruce… We Take Care of Right-Wing Nonsense about Bruce…

Eric Alterman talks the blues and Cold War literature and Reed Richardson assesses our politics through Bruce Springsteen.

Mar 8, 2012 / Eric Alterman

America’s Failed (Bi-Partisan) Russia Policy America’s Failed (Bi-Partisan) Russia Policy

Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, the relationship features more elements of cold-war conflict than of stable cooperation.

Mar 8, 2012 / Stephen F. Cohen

The US, Israel and Iran

The US, Israel and Iran The US, Israel and Iran

Obama foiled Netanyahu’s attempt to browbeat Washington into war. But the White House needs a new strategic approach.

Mar 7, 2012 / The Editors

The Right-Wing Effort to Smear Obama and Liberals as ‘Anti-Israel’ The Right-Wing Effort to Smear Obama and Liberals as ‘Anti-Israel’

The Emergency Committee for Israel is accusing President Obama and liberal think tanks of opposing Israel’s interests, but they don’t have the evidence to back it up.&n...

Mar 4, 2012 / Ben Adler

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