Barack Obama

What looked like another U.S. march to war in the Mideast has turned toward a peaceful accord that carries hope of getting Syria to relinquish its chemical weapons and …

Colorado was plagued with devastating wildfires this summer. Now come the floods.

Inequality experts Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez reveal the biggest gap between rich and poor ever recorded by economists

Barack Obamau2019s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resembles hammering a square peg into a round hole, and itu2019s no small surprise the pieces donu2019t fit.

George Lakoff analyzes the language in public discourse on Syria from the perspective of cognitive science and linguistics.

All agree that chemical weapons were used (even Assad agrees); the Administration says that we have overwhelming evidence that Assad's forces deployed these chemicals (Assad denies).

The deadliness and unreliability of chemical weapons were not the only lessons of World War I. A far more important lesson is that a war can take on a …

There is no doubt that the use of chemical arms is immoral and to be condemned, but your government has no moral authority whatsoever to justify an intervention.

War is organized insanity. And, frankly, it's often not even that organized.

The White House dispatched Chief of Staff Denis McDonough to the Sunday talk shows a choice that underscored the Obama administrationu2019s credibility problems and raised new doubts about the …