Don't sweat the details of the July nuclear accord between the United States and Iran. What matters is that the calculus of power in the…

I’m glad that the United States and Iran reached an agreement in Vienna after nearly two years of negotiations and 35 years of enmity. A…

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 22 2015 (IPS) - When U.S. President Barack Obama visited the El Reno Correctional Facility in Oklahoma last week to check on living…

In a report that covers everything from police violence to income inequality to government surveillance, China has blasted the United States for its "grim problems…

The possibility of another Clinton or Bush becoming president in 2017 should make everyone’s blood run cold. Both represent everything wrong with America – a…

Recently, the Washington Post reported new data showing something most of us already sense: that increased polarization on Capitol Hill is due to the way the Republican Party…

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is willing to risk a war with China in order to defend  “freedom of navigation” in the South China…

The U.S. sabotage last week of an international agreement aimed at eradicating nuclear weapons stockpiles has been met mostly with alarm and frustration around the world—but gratitude…

When I was in Beijing during the protests in 1989, a middle-aged man came up to me and asked, “Couldn’t America send some B-52s here…

After nearly four weeks of negotiations, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference ended in a predictable outcome: a text overwhelmingly reflecting the views and…

So a woman walks into a room... That's how quite a few jokes usually start. In our case, self-appointed Queen of Nulandistan Victoria "F**k the…

MALAKAL, South Sudan -- I didn’t really think he was going to shoot me.  There was no anger in his eyes.  His finger may not…