Foreign Policy In Focus

Two new films introduce the world's premier experts on militarism (hint: you won't meet them in Washington).

The Mike Daisey saga has shown that melodrama and sentimental fiction cannot alone change the world, but they have a place in progressive politics.

Why does the media treat a dead mouse as more important than an anti-war protest?

The Mexican poet speaks of his deep involvement in nature and literature.

When there's war all the time, there's no such thing as after the war anymore.

A poem about Gaza asks whether there is a poem in Gaza that hasn't been written?

The dissident, like the plant, does not kowtow to the sky.