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Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman Henry Holt and Co., 288 pp. The global financial system runs on a network of undersea [...]

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As he spoke from the sunny steps of the U.S. Capitol during his inauguration, Joe Biden acknowledged that this will be 'a time of testing.' He enumerated the crises we [...]

The article focuses on the resurgence of American power under the U.S. President Joe Biden, challenging the narrative of America's decline compared to China. Topics include the strong U.S. economy; technological advancements, alliances; and strategic policies that position the U.S. as a rising global power despite challenges such as national debt and geopolitical threats from adversaries like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.

America has a dirty secret, and a mortally dangerous problem. You will occasionally see it mentioned in the press, but almost no politician will give it more than a passing [...]

Something touched my foot, and I was instantly awake. I squirmed around to face a dark figure looming over me, the muzzle of my M-16 still directed down the trail […]

During 2002 and early- 2003, Bush administration officials put forth a shifting series of arguments for why we needed to invade Iraq. Nearly every one of these has been belied […]

The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did) by James Traub Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 272 pp. Every American soldier who served from [...]

Operating on the theory that if you say something enough times people will believe it, the Bush administration and its allies have in the last few years confidently put forth [...]

The retired general and presidential candidate describes errors made by the Bush administration in the war with Iraq.

Byline: Wesley K. Clark; Clark commanded NATO forces during the Kosovo war in 1999. Moscow sees Serbia as its final bulwark in the Balkans against the steady advance of the [...]

Calls for international cooperation in the effort to stabilize Iraq following the Iraq War of 2003. Lack of direction and increase in violence in Iraq; Turn of public opinion in the United States against the war; Need to alter the strategy and tactics for constructing a stable, representative government in Iraq; Arab anger toward the United States and its efforts in Iraq; Need to involve regional governments in Iraq's reconstruction; Increased resources of international cooperation.