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“A sweeping exercise in nation-building on a scale and scope not seen in generations,” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the international donors conference on March 31 in …

How do we counter political demoralization among those who had such high hopes for the American political process just over a year ago? It helped to finally pass the …

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once declared that individuals captured by the US military in the aftermath of 9/11 and shipped off to the Guantanamo Bay prison facility …

If there is any subject that enrages those who now call themselves conservatives, it is federal spending — and especially the stimulus program enacted by the Democratic administration and …

The tax code needs fixing to be fairer and less complex. But let's set some rules for this debate. Here are the Five Commandments of Tax Reform: Thou shall …

Vice Adm. William McRaven traveled to the village of Khataba to offer personal apologies for the five Afghanistan deaths in a botched special forces raid there in February. The …

Nahal Oz, Gaza - Patchwork clouds of smoke moved to and fro in the wind above a group of Palestinian youth waving Palestinian flags, standing on top of a …

In Prague, President Obama signed the modest START 1 Follow On Treaty, or “New START,” between the US and Russia. It helps to stabilize the relationship between the two …

During Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, Senate advocates and the Obama administration depicted her as a judicial moderate, balancing her liberal record on equal protection cases against …

[This report appears in the Spring 2010 issue of World Policy Journal and is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine.]