The UN Human Rights Council is worse than its predecessor.

The strategic dangers of financial manipulation are real.

Diplomacy cannot create the conditions for its own success.

An argument for a U.S.-Afghanistan defense treaty

Talking about Afghanistan with Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Was it a good idea? The debate continues.

Stories and memorials reflect and shape our politics and history.

The fiasco of the Olympic Torch Relay has focused attention on the condition of human rights in China.  What is the source of human rights abuses in that country today?  Many people assume the problem is that China remains a communist dictatorship, and that abuses occur because a strong centralized Chinese state ignores the rights […]

The fiasco of the Olympic Torch Relay has focused attention on the condition of human rights in China. What is the source of human rights abuses in that country today? Many people assume the problem is that China remains a communist dictatorship, and that abuses occur because a strong centralized Chinese state ignores the rights […]

If Iraq drops to page-three or page-four story by the end of 2008, that would qualify as a better outcome, if not exactly a “win.”