• A Black Republican's Memo to Democrats

    When it comes to 'rogues' like Iran, Cuba and North Korea, will President Obama be feared and not liked? Or will he be liked and not feared?

    A Black Republican's Memo to Democrats on Foreign Policy
  • Bill Clinton Up Close: Former Prez Dishes on Obama, Afghanistan and Climate Change

    The private conversation with Clinton began and ended on the future of energy--also the subject of President Barack Obama’s address to today’s United Nations summit on climate change. Clinton, hoping to lead the conversation on the global green future, stressed over and over that the politics of environmental action is not a matter of tree-hugging but of dollars and cents.
    Bill Clinton Gives Private Interview on Climate Change at Clinton Global Initiative 2009
  • What the U.S. Can Do for Congo

    Does Hillary Clinton’s recent visit mean that the U.S. is finally willing to get serious about Congo’s crisis?
    What the United States Can Do for the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Where’s the Beef in Africa?

    Hillary Clinton’s tiff with a Congolese student obscures the real American mission in Africa: economic development.
    Hillary Clinton's Africa Trip Revives the "Aid v. Trade" Debate
  • VIDEO: Hillary Justifies Her Thug in Q&A Session

    The Secretary of State got a little froggy after a university student asks her husband's opinion of foreign policy matters...
    VIDEO: Hillary Justifies Her Thug in Q&A Session
  • Obama's Money Machine: Now Running Foreign Policy?

    The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering the nominations of two men to represent the United States in East Asia: Republican Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah, and Democrat John V. Roos of California. But it's the Democratic appointment who is selling out Obama's promise....
    Behind the Scenes, Key Obama Fundraisers Get Plum Ambassador Jobs
  • Swagga Goes International

    Is Jay-Z George Bush? Mark Lynch of SLATE sister site FOREIGN POLICY recently compared hip hop to geostrategy. He parses the recent back-and-forth between rapper Jay-Z and less successful (though still famous) MCs like The Game, Nas, and 50 Cent, using Jay-Z's diss tracks, and his responses to those of others, to form a crudish theory of American global authority.
    Hillary Clinton, Jay-Z, The Game and Global Theories of Power
  • Who's Afraid of Bibi?

    President Barack Obama and American progressives face down the Israeli right.
    Barack Obama, Donna Edwards and American Progressives Face Down the Israeli Right
  • Obama Delivers "Real Talk" on Islam at Cairo University

    President Barack Obama's major speech in Cairo, Egypt lived up to the hype; not that, as the president said at the city's Al-Azhar University, "a single speech can eradicate years of mistrust," but that Obama is uniquely comfortable speaking plainly in the most uncomfortable of situations. And here—in a Muslim country not yet fully democratic, before an audience of skeptical, but cosmopolitan Egyptians and a noisome public at home—was an uncomfortable situation....
    Video: Barack Obama's Speech in Cairo Promotes "A New Beginning"
  • Hope For Haiti, Really

    President Obama's interests and Bill Clinton's new role are producing something rare in the hemisphere's poorest nation -- optimism.
    U.S. Relations with Haiti Are Prioritized by Obama
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