Foreign Policy reports that Japan is stiffening the state's ability to classify information and punish whistleblowers and is even rolling back their pacifist constitution to get "in line with U.S. preferences." The new law, which passed Japan's upper house Friday,...

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Today you can watch much of the world praise the life and mourn the death of former South African President anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. Scores of U.S. leaders and political pundits with platforms to reach millions of Americans are expressing admiration for...

As the U.S. wrestles with the Karzai government to finalize a security agreement that would govern thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan for another decade, virtually everyone across every spectrum agrees that pulling out completely - the so-called 'zero option' -...

China's recent attempt to establish an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over disputed territory in the East China Sea was met with shock and horror from the U.S. and its Asian allies. But the shock and horror, as always with American foreign policy, is cynically...

The Obama administration's fumbling policy on Syria turned out better than it might have this past fall when unprecedented public and international opposition to a punitive U.S. strike against the Assad regime staved off another reckless U.S. war in the Middle East....

For almost 50-years, the Pew Research Center has been polling on the question of whether Americans think the U.S. "should mind its own business internationally," but only now, for the very first time, have a majority of Americans answered in the affirmative. I'm often...

A senior European Union official today discussed the possibility of the EU causing the collapse of the Palestinian Authority if the current round of peace talks fail, with an eye toward pressing Israel to make some serious moves toward Palestinian statehood. The...