US


Is the Pentagon betraying its troops?

Robert R. Reilly | 06 December 2010 |
tags: don't ask, don't tell, homosexuality, US
Why repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy for homosexual servicemen and women will weaken American combat effectiveness.


Standing Bear is a person

Rebecca R. Messall | 02 December 2010 |
tags: personhood, US
A dispossessed 19th Century Indian chief succeeded in proving that his people were persons, in a triumph for American idealism, courage and peaceful response to injustice.  


Time for a new destiny?

Godfrey Hodgson | 16 November 2010 |
tags: international relations, US
The United States is caught in the gap between a potent domestic sense of historical mission and a shifting global political reality.


Anger? What anger?

Michael Coren | 04 November 2010 |
tags: Obama, US
What sank President Obama and the Democrats was well-founded frustration with a limping economy, a partisan agenda and muddled foreign policy.


The new normal on abortion

Andrew Galbraith | 28 September 2010 |
tags: abortion, polls, US
A shift towards opposition is unsteady and glacially slow, but supporters of a pro-choice stand are still dismayed. 


Upsetting the stem cell applecart

Michael Cook | 26 August 2010 |
tags: stem cells, US
Have two US presidents and a raft of agencies been misinterpreting a federal law for nearly ten years? A judge says Yes.


Iran’s headlock on the US over Iraq

George Friedman | 17 August 2010 |
tags: Iran, Iraq, Stratfor, US
The war in Iraq is far from over and Iran is sitting pretty.


The abiding significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Christopher O. Tollefsen | 10 August 2010 |
tags: ethics, sanctity of life, US, warfare
Americans must still wrestle with what it means to take the lives of innocent civilians intentionally.


The right way to fire teachers

Thomas C. Reeves | 27 July 2010 |
tags: education, teachers, US
To the cheers of conservative critics, Washington DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has fired scores of teachers. But will that fix the system?


Divided hearts

George Friedman | 21 July 2010 |
tags: citizenship, commitment, US
Dual nationality is becoming more and more common, but it changes the traditional American notion of citizenship.


America divided: the politics of inequality

Godfrey Hodgson | 20 July 2010 |
tags: economics, unemployment, US
The entrenchment of inequality in the United States damages the economy, degrades politics and corrodes the American dream.


The 30-Year War in Afghanistan

George Friedman | 30 June 2010 |
tags: Afghanistan, Obama, US
Is it worthwhile getting American troops to fight in Afghanistan instead of arming the Taliban's allies? 


Farewell to all that jazz

Thomas C. Reeves | 29 June 2010 |
tags: jazz, music, US
We are drifting away from America's only original contribution to Western music.


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