The alarming pace of events in Afghanistan is forcing United States and Nato strategists to adjust their strategy and timetable to end the war. But they cannot acknowledge the flaw at the heart of their efforts.
What is Kony2012? The apologists for Invisible Children call it “raising awareness.” Alex de Waal calls it peddling dangerous and patronizing falsehoods.
The war over contraception in America during the last bizarre month was never about religious freedom or women’s health care. It was about controlling women’s right to control their own bodies and to make their own sexual and reproductive choices, says Ruth Rosen
Santorum has a distinguished record as a champion of religious liberty, but tarnishes his credibility by launching this ill-informed broadside against the President.
The Arab spring has cast Turkey back into the western fold and away from alternative alliance patterns which seemed to be in the pipeline only a few years ago. Turkey won't act in Syria without its western partners. Meanwhile it is the very incompleteness of the Turkish model which is of such inte
Myth-making and forgetting are a political process - look at how the USA's Republican Party candidates claim the mantle of Reagan while hoping to be entirely cloaked from association with George W Bush. But the importance of establishing distance from Bush should not be confined to the Republicans
There are many candidates to savour, each of a singular beauty which defies a label, as our author turns away from the nightly news
The military-political interplay in Afghanistan is taking an alarming new tilt for Washington. The possibility of a more precipitous exit is rising.
Today's Sunday Comic on predators and prey of various kinds plus a road map to reality
