News Analysis

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has given the Department of Defense a possible reprieve from American citizens' war-weary thoughts.

When nearly 400 millennials committed civil disobedience on Sunday in front of the White House to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, they sent a clear message to President Obama: …

After two years of uproar over mostly phantom cuts, 2015 isn't likely to bring austerity to the Pentagon either.

There is no evidence that broad sectors of society, especially the urban poor who provide the most support to the government, have joined the protests initiated by middle and …

Whenever Washington winds down its wars and our troops become needy veterans, interest in their welfare always flags. Clearly, Congress and the White House are much better at starting …

TransCanada aimed to build this pipeline five years ago, and they still haven't. That's saying something about the efforts of activists throughout the country.

There is a dense fog of suspicion surrounding the final round of El Salvador's presidential elections on March 9th. There have been social media reports of bankers and business …

Jeffrey Sommers and John Quigley analyze the role of Russia and the United States in the Ukraine crisis.

The institutional and political inertia accorded the “Washington rules” of international geopolitics may be causing the West to severely misconstrue the depth of Russian interests in the Ukraine.

Even as the intellectual foundation for our drug-based paradigm of mental health care is collapsing, society's use of these medications is increasing.