Foreign Policy In Focus

If right wingers are going to purge "ethnic studies" from America's textbooks, then they'll have to purge history too.

Would you recognize a torturer if you saw one?

Appealing to jingoism is certainly easier than prompting national introspection, but is priming an audience for blood what we call art today?

Despite its triumphalism, the GDR museum in Berlin suggests that reunification remains an unfinished business.

When we reach the adamantine gates of Iraq, it's too late to turn back.

Identify war by what it takes away.

While well-intentioned, "Argo" falls into the common Hollywood trap of making Muslims into a monolithic Green Menace.