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Time for Kerry to Face Facts

As America's top diplomat heads to Moscow, here are some tough questions he needs to answer about the Obama administration's flawed nuclear treaty.

BY ROBERT JOSEPH, ERIC EDELMAN | MAY 6, 2013

How to Close Guantanamo

Why Obama doesn’t need Congress to start to make good on his promise.

BY LAURA PITTER | MAY 1, 2013

In Search of Reinhold Niebuhr

America could use a little philosophical humility right now.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 1, 2013

The Mexico Bubble

Is President Enrique Peña Nieto about to fall to Earth?

BY JOHN M. ACKERMAN | MAY 1, 2013

The Angst in Foggy Bottom

Many in the State Department aren’t happy with the president’s policy on Syria. And they’re speaking out.

BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON | APRIL 30, 2013

They Were 'Gentle, Loving, and Tender, Like Girls'

A conversation with the mother of the Tsarnaevs.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | APRIL 26, 2013

The One-Man Show

Secretary of State John Kerry thinks he can singlehandedly solve the world's most intractable problems. But will President Obama even let him try?

BY JAMES TRAUB | APRIL 26, 2013

Trade Winds

It’s taken four years, but President Obama is finally coming around to a pro-trade economic agenda. And it could be his greatest legacy.

BY JAMES K. GLASSMAN | APRIL 26, 2013

Well, This Is Awkward

How Pervez Musharraf's foolish return to Pakistan is creating problems for the United States.

BY DANIEL MARKEY | APRIL 25, 2013

YaLa Young Leaders

How a Facebook organization could transform the Middle East.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 24, 2013

Bottom of the Barrel

Today's terrorists aren't "sophisticated." They're stupider than ever. 

BY MAX ABRAHMS | APRIL 24, 2013

IED=WMD?

Why the Justice Department’s charge against the Boston bomber is ridiculous.

BY TIMOTHY NOAH | APRIL 22, 2013

Boston's Jihadist Past

Long before the marathon bombing, Islamists in Massachusetts were helping militants in Chechnya.

BY J.M. BERGER | APRIL 22, 2013

The Invisible War

Russians weren't paying much attention to their own war on terror. But that was before the attacks in Boston.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | APRIL 19, 2013

For Shame

Why don't Americans care more about torture?

BY JAMES TRAUB | APRIL 19, 2013

Our Friends in Manama

Why the United States should walk carefully and move slowly when it comes to reform in Bahrain.

BY RONALD E. NEUMANN | APRIL 19, 2013

Mostly Quiet on the Western Front

Why isn’t terrorism in the United States a whole lot more frequent?

BY DAVID H. SCHANZER | APRIL 17, 2013

Stay the Hand of Vengeance

From Guantánamo to Boston, why Americans have a dangerous tendency to overreact to terrorism.

BY BRUCE WEINSTEIN | APRIL 16, 2013

How Geography Explains the United States

Even after the tragedy in Boston, our country remains uniquely secure from foreign threats -- and that shapes how Americans see the world.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 16, 2013

Have It Their Way

From burgers to Bud Light, America's favorite brands are now owned by foreigners.

BY AFSHIN MOLAVI | APRIL 15, 2013

Mad Men

Who's more dangerous to Americans than Kim Jong Un?

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | APRIL 9, 2013

Science Unfairness

The war on the pursuit of knowledge is starting to hurt America.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | APRIL 8, 2013

Head of the Class

Don't look now, declinists, but the U.S. economy is strong and poised to beat its rivals. Yes, even China.

BY RUCHIR SHARMA | APRIL 8, 2013

Point of Order

The problem with Congress's idea to base immigration on economic merit.

BY ALEXANDRA STARR | APRIL 5, 2013

How to Stop a Nuclear War

What the Cuban missile crisis teaches us about facing down North Korea.

BY MICHAEL DOBBS | APRIL 5, 2013

David Stockman’s Dystopia

Why Reagan’s former budget chief is like a crazy person howling in the wind. Let’s ignore him.

BY JARED BERNSTEIN | APRIL 5, 2013

A Weapon of Minor Destruction

How Eric Harroun, the American jihadist in Syria, was duped by the FBI into incriminating himself.

BY ROBERT YOUNG PELTON | APRIL 4, 2013

Left Hook

Five ways the GOP can outflank Obama on foreign policy.

BY JOHN NORRIS | APRIL 3, 2013

Haiti's Inconvenient Truth

Was a U.N. diplomat pushed out of his position for airing Port-au-Prince's dirty laundry in public?

BY JONATHAN M. KATZ | APRIL 3, 2013

Detroit’s Quixotic Bid to Host the United Nations

What if the U.N.'s headquarters had been on Lake St. Clair instead of the East River?

BY CHARLENE MIRES | APRIL 2, 2013