U.S. Congress

Caucasian Standoff

The bitter war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has been on hold for 16 years. But that doesn't mean it's over.

BY THOMAS DE WAAL | JUNE 30, 2010

Unfinished Business

For 65 years, Japanese corporations have escaped responsibility for abusing American POWs during World War II.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 28, 2010

The People's Capsule

How a clunky old Soviet rocket outlasted the space shuttle.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | JULY/AUGUST 2010

Gasbags

Politicians, oilmen, and green-energy boosters love to invoke the idea of energy security. None of them know what they're talking about.

BY MICHAEL LEVI | JUNE 15, 2010

Ahmadinejad's Sugar Daddy

How Brazilian ethanol could help Iran outwit American sanctions.

BY GAL LUFT | JUNE 3, 2010

The State Department Can’t Be Trusted with Iran Sanctions

The U.S. Treasury is far more willing and equipped to make sanctions truly biting.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | MAY 14, 2010

Still Partners

Pakistan needs U.S. help now more than ever.

BY DICK LUGAR | MAY 6, 2010

Why Can’t Anyone Stop the LRA?

One of the evilest rebel armies in Africa has been kidnapping children and brutally murdering civilians for 20 years despite constant international efforts to wipe it out. Why?

BY MICHAEL WILKERSON | APRIL 19, 2010

It's Not About the Treaty

What Prague means, and doesn't mean, for the future of nuclear weapons.

BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | APRIL 7, 2010

The Accidental Domestic President

For Barack Obama, the world will have to wait.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 23, 2010

Sudan Is Still Up to No Good

Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir is playing a breathtakingly cynical double game: harboring a notorious Ugandan death cult while pledging to work for peace in Darfur.

BY JOHN NORRIS | MARCH 11, 2010

Uribe Checks Out

Washington's most reliable ally in Latin America, the Colombian president, is on his way out. That's a good thing.

BY ADAM ISACSON | MARCH 4, 2010

Bipartisan Spring

Washington may be deeply polarized on domestic matters, but when it comes to foreign affairs, a remarkable consensus is taking shape.

BY ROBERT KAGAN | MARCH 3, 2010

Adios, Amigos

How Latin America stopped caring what the United States thinks.

BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | MARCH 2, 2010

How Genocide Became a National Security Threat

And what Barack Obama should do about it.

BY MICHAEL ABRAMOWITZ, LAWRENCE WOOCHER | FEBRUARY 26, 2010

A Light at the End of the Tunnel in Congo

Yes, it may look like the worst hell on Earth. But there are signs that the decades-long resource war in Central Africa could be shifting for the better -- if only the West stops bankrolling it.

BY JOHN PRENDERGAST | FEBRUARY 26, 2010

KSM Doesn't Deserve to Be a War Criminal

Treating terrorists like warriors is exactly what they want.

BY TOM MALINOWSKI | FEBRUARY 11, 2010

How to Read the QDR

What the Pentagon’s most highly anticipated planning document says about the gap between its aspirations and reality.

BY TRAVIS SHARP | FEBRUARY 2, 2010

A World Without Bernanke

If Big Ben doesn't chair the Fed, then who?

BY ANNIE LOWREY | JANUARY 27, 2010

'Langley Won't Tell Us'

How I fought the intelligence turf wars -- and lost.

BY RON CAPPS | JANUARY 11, 2010

Punish Iran’s Rulers, Not Its People

The U.S. Congress is looking to penalize companies that help Iran import gasoline. But the plan is a huge giveaway to the very same hard-liners that are driving the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions and oppressing the Iranian people.

BY ALIREZA NADER | DECEMBER 14, 2009

Latin America's New Cold War?

Venezuela's and Colombia's ambassadors to the United States tell their sides of an increasingly tense story.

BY BERNARDO ALVAREZ HERRERA, CAROLINA BARCO | DECEMBER 8, 2009

End the War by Winning It

Barack Obama made the right decision to deploy 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But he made the wrong one in announcing an arbitrary date for U.S. withdrawal.

BY SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN | DECEMBER 3, 2009

Democracy Loses the Honduran Election

It's an abomination that Sunday's presidential vote came without consequence for the country's coup-makers.

BY KEVIN CASAS-ZAMORA | DECEMBER 1, 2009

Addicted to Contractors

The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

BY ALLISON STANGER | DECEMBER 1, 2009

Market Riot

How the crisis inspired an entirely new set of big ideas on big money.

BY NOAM SCHEIBER | DECEMBER 2009

Afghanistan Is Not Making Americans Safer

Will ramping up the war in Afghanistan embolden domestic terrorists?

BY PAUL R. PILLAR | NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Think Again: Africom

U.S. Africa Command was launched to controversy and has been met with skepticism ever since. Behind two years of mixed messages, a coherent mission might finally be emerging. Here's what you need to know about the world's next U.S. military hub.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | NOVEMBER 17, 2009

J Street Looks for the Middle Road

The new Israel lobby group made a spectacular entrance, but it now must walk a political tightrope to build its credibility.

BY GIDEON LICHFIELD | NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The Embargo on Change

Obama or no Obama, U.S.-Cuba relations are unlikely to improve anytime soon.

BY ROQUE PLANAS | OCTOBER 28, 2009