Jimmy Carter Commentary

Osama at the Top of His Game

Bin Laden is in vintage form with his new message threatening France.

North Korea's New Boy-General

Kim Jong Il can sit back, have a cigar and sip his Hennessy. His boy's got his back now.

The Disconnect of Hitch-22

Is Christopher Hitchens calling for six million Jews to pack up and leave Israel?

The Threat at Home

The attempted Times Square attack is just the latest in a line of plots that shows Washington doesn’t have a strategy to prevent homegrown terror.

Tokyo Rising

China’s growing strength is making its neighbors nervous—and less fearful of a fully rearmed Japan.

Bad Clients

The Ahmed Chalabi fiasco is just the latest chapter in America’s long history of being duped by foreign political actors.

The New Year

Foreign policy will be the crucial political battleground of 2010—and it will make or break Obama’s presidency.

Unjust War

The situation of women in Afghanistan, though horrid, does not warrant more years of costly conflict.

Why We Can't Leave

A top terrorism expert argues against the rising calls for a rapid U.S. departure from Afghanistan. Otherwise we risk another major al-Qaeda attack.

Obama's Speech

The president’s Cairo address confirmed his skill as an orator and encouraged Arabs and Israelis to work toward peace. But the realities of the AfPak conflict will probably ring truer in Muslim ears than Obama’s dulcet tones.

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May 26, 2012