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  • 40 million horny bachelors

    Will sexually frustrated men be the cause of China's next war?
    By Sarah Goldstein February 28, 2006

  • The good news about Bolton

    Even if he's ultimately confirmed, those who spoke out against him have signaled to the world that he doesn't represent all Americans -- and ensured he won't wield a big stick.
    By Ian Williams May 13, 2005

  • The Democrats' Middle East dilemma

    Savaged by right-wingers for a "Daily Show" appearance in which she seemed to root for U.S. failure, former Clinton advisor Nancy Soderberg talks about what Bush does and doesn't deserve credit for.
    By Page Rockwell March 21, 2005

  • Mr. Magoo goes to the World Bank

    The problem with Paul Wolfowitz isn't that he's an evil genius. It's that he has been consistently, astonishingly, unswervingly wrong about foreign policy for 30 years.
    By Michael Lind March 17, 2005

  • All democracy, all the time

    A new bill proposes to rid the world of dictators by 2025. But critics deride it as a pie-in-the-sky cover for Bush's failures.
    By John Feffer March 15, 2005

  • Four poor years?

    Bush backers boast that his victory gives him a chance to join the greats. But most reelected presidents have been far less effective in their second term than in their first.
    By Ted Widmer November 12, 2004

  • Why conservatives must not vote for Bush

    A Reaganite argues that Bush is a dangerous, profligate, moralizing radical -- and that his reelection would be catastrophic both for the right and for America.
    By Doug Bandow September 10, 2004

  • "A world with more partners, fewer terrorists"

    While delegates talked politics, world leaders and one popular former U.S. president discussed what's at stake globally in the November election.
    By Mark Follman July 27, 2004

  • How John Kerry should handle Iraq

    Thoughts on President Bush's foreign policy debacle -- and what the Democratic presidential nominee should say and do about it -- from John Judis, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Michael Lind and more.
    Compiled by Salon staff July 23, 2004

  • A call to conscience

    The diplomat who quit over Nixon's invasion of Cambodia asks Americans on the front lines of foreign service to resign from the "worst regime by far in the history of the republic."
    By Roger Morris May 21, 2004

  • Searching for Colin Powell

    The real Powell Doctrine is self-interest as national interest.
    By Dennis Jett March 26, 2004

  • Dean talks tough on terror

    The Democratic front-runner pledges that "addressing the threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction will be America's highest priority in my administration."
    December 15, 2003

  • The Liberia waiting game

    Can the Bush administration bring itself to commit U.S. troops in Africa on purely humanitarian grounds?
    By Laura McClure July 25, 2003

  • Is Iran next?

    Tehran is a year or two away from acquiring nuclear weapons. Is the Bush administration willing to go to war -- again -- to stop it?
    By Mark Follman July 10, 2003

  • Bush's illogical foreign policy

    The nuclear threat from North Korea reveals the limits of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine.
    By Robert Scheer January 2, 2003

  • The arrogance of the Bush Doctrine

    The president's new foreign policy will only anger other countries, and provoke them to take their own "preemptive action."
    By Robert Scheer September 25, 2002

  • Bush doctrine makes waves overseas

    International reaction to new policy of preemptive strikes casts a suspicious eye on "imperialist" designs.
    By Anthony York September 24, 2002

  • "Bush's Foreign Policy Catastrophe"

    by Gary Kamiya
    April 3, 2002

  • "They view world politics as a billiard-ball table"

    Experts struggle to explain the Bush administration's off-and-on Mideast policy.
    By Damien Cave April 2, 2002

  • Noam Chomsky

    The nation's most implacable critic of U.S. foreign policy argues that the war is unjust, America is the biggest terrorist state and intellectuals always support official violence.
    By Suzy Hansen January 16, 2002

  • The making of a hawk

    From Kuwait to Kosovo to Kabul, American firepower has been on the right side of history. The odyssey of a former dove.
    By David Talbot January 3, 2002

  • Democracy first?

    We might rue the day we force our authoritarian allies to democratize, Robert Kaplan argues, once we see who replaces them.
    By Damien Cave November 22, 2001

  • The bloody Jordan river now flows through America

    By Gary Kamiya
    September 17, 2001

  • The Colin Powell difference

    For Foreign Service veterans, the new secretary of state's openness is a welcome change from Madeleine Albright's snobbery.
    By Ben Barber May 19, 2001

  • Bush league

    America's ouster from the U.N. Human Rights Commission reveals the arrogant incompetence of Bush's vaunted "wise men."
    By Joe Conason May 8, 2001
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