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December 22, 2010

Politics and Government
Demographics and Destiny

The Census Bureau released the top-line results of the decennial census yesterday.  The main message is unsurprising.  There are more of us, we are older, we look less like the people who stepped o…

Demographics and Destiny

January 5, 2011

Politics and Government
John Boehner’s Big Day

House Republican Leader Boehner during a press conference in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2010. (Yuri Gripas/Courtesy Reuters) John Boehner becomes the sixty-first Speaker of the House today, an…

House Republican Leader Boehner during a press conference in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2010.

October 18, 2011

International Organizations
U.S. Sovereignty at Bay? Separating Fact and Fiction

People sign a huge copy of U.S. Constitution at an "Occupation of Washington" march camp in Washington, October 10, 2011. (Courtesy Reuters/Yuri Gripas) In a July 4 post, The Internationalist predic…

U.S. Sovereignty at Bay? Separating Fact and Fiction

August 15, 2011

Defense and Security
U.S. National Security Strategy: Rhetoric and Reality

The seal of the President of the United States is seen on the wall of one of the rooms of the newly renovated White House Situation Room complex during a tour given to news photographers in Washingto…

U.S. National Security Strategy: Rhetoric and Reality

June 24, 2011

International Organizations
Half-Baked: The UN’s Annual Global Drug Report

Drug addicts in Managua, Nicaragua (Oswaldo Rivas/ Courtesy Reuters). On Thursday, the United Nations launched its annual World Drug Report. This year’s report comes four decades after President Ric…

Half-Baked: The UN’s Annual Global Drug Report