Syria

The United States and Russia on Saturday reached agreement on a plan that would end Syriau2019s ability to produce chemical weapons by November and would destroy all materials that …

Robert Naiman: It wasn't anti-political engagement loudmouths who stopped the war. It was people who engaged Congress.

Aleksandr Buzgalin: Putin's aims in Syria through a domestic lens.

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

In today's On the News segment: According to a new report from economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, based on numbers from the internal revenue service, the top ten …

Part two of writer Chris Hedges and scholar Rania Masri response to President Obama's Syria address.

Once again, we find ourselves at the day after 9/11, and this time America stands alone.

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.