United Nations

"Obama is average" "Obama is average"

In an interview, a leading voice of America's conservative intellectuals discusses Barack Obama's failures
By Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz Oct 27, 2009

  • The top ten things you didn't know about Iran

    The assumptions most Americans hold about Iran and its policies are wrong
    By Juan Cole October 1, 2009

  • Obama undercuts Iran

    With nuclear fears growing, the president's shrewd moves are winning Russian support for boxing in Iran
    By Juan Cole September 25, 2009

  • Obama embraces the U.N.

    The President pledges to increase international cooperation, while another leader steals the spotlight
    By Vincent Rossmeier September 23, 2009

  • Does Iran want to be a pariah?

    As Ahmadinejad heads for the U.S., he and Iran's other hard-liners seem bent on increasing their nation's isolation
    By Juan Cole September 22, 2009

  • Reversing Bush decision, U.S. to sign U.N. gay rights declaration

    The U.S. was the only Western government not to endorse the document last year.
    By Alex Koppelman March 18, 2009

  • Report: Susan Rice for UN ambassador

    ABC reports that Susan Rice, a foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama, is likely his choice to be ambassador to the United Nations.
    By Gabriel Winant November 24, 2008

  • On Iraq, McCain doesn't have a clue

    Despite the impasse in U.S.-Iraq negotiations, he clings to his fantasy of "victory" and America's ability to set the terms for withdrawal.
    By Joe Conason October 27, 2008

  • Ahmadinejad's own U.S. presidential campaign

    As I spent time with the Iranian president in New York, the central purpose of his trip to the United Nations became clear: Getting reelected back home.
    By Hooman Majd September 25, 2008

  • Obama goes over the top in bashing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    Once again, U.S. politicians, including both Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, pile on the Iranian president. Why does Larry King (!) sound like the adult in the room?
    By Juan Cole September 24, 2008

  • Why Bush folded on Iran

    Reality, of the military and petroleum-based variety, forced the administration to change course. Now Bush sounds like Obama.
    By Juan Cole July 31, 2008

  • When my finger was on the button for Israel

    I was a young law student applying for a part-time internship. To my amazement, I was soon casting votes at the U.N. and working for Ariel Sharon.
    By Gregory Levey April 22, 2008

  • When cooking is a radical act

    Foreign women opening restaurants in Kabul provide stability and comfort to a war-torn area.
    By Carol Lloyd December 18, 2007

  • Kevin Rudd wastes no time

    And then there was one. In his first act as prime minister, Rudd leaves the U.S. standing alone as the only developed nation that hasn't ratified the Kyoto Protocol.
    By Andrew Leonard December 3, 2007

  • "They are done to destroy women"

    How to help victims of sexual violence in Congo
    By Lynn Harris November 21, 2007

  • "Hideous and pandemic proportions"

    The U.N. Security Council demands -- again -- an end to violence against women.
    By Lynn Harris October 24, 2007

  • Bush "at peace" waging war

    A new transcript reveals the president, on the brink of the Iraq invasion, full of faith, calm and unyielding optimism.
    By Mark Danner October 18, 2007

  • China's deadly Darfur games

    Slick P.R. moves around the '08 Olympics can't hide the fact that China is still complicit in the Darfur genocide.
    By Jill Savitt October 4, 2007

  • The war president "at peace" with himself

    Bush's 2003 conversation with the Spanish prime minister shows his smug determination to invade Iraq at all costs.
    By Joe Conason September 28, 2007

  • Don't cry for Saudi Arabia

    The Kingdom's petroleum minister claims that efforts to rein in the demand for oil are unfair to his country. But maybe the world has bigger problems?
    By Andrew Leonard September 27, 2007

  • Ahmadinejad's New York state of mind

    My time with the Iranian president this week underscored how the U.S. media has overlooked his political savvy.
    By Hooman Majd September 26, 2007
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