Quasi-Weighing in: Green Tech and Foreign Oil Dependence
Earlier this week, Jeff Kalmus responded to Will Rafey’s post “China in the Lead,” in which Rafey argues that China is poised to overtake the U.S....
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and Harvard ROTC
Protest of ROTC's policies toward homosexuals (at UW-Madison, 1990) At Harvard’s Reserve Officer Training Corps commissioning ceremony this Wednesday,...
America’s Military in Flux
Journalist Thomas Ricks assesses America’s armed forces Tom Ricks is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Fiasco,...
Yemen on the Brink
How a failing Yemen threatens international security One year before the 9/11 attacks, suicide bombers struck the USS Cole while it was anchored off the...
Colombia’s War on Terror
Have the FARC finally met their match? A recent string of defeats for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Latin America’s oldest, largest,...
The Kurds: Nation Without a State
When identity binds and borders divide Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the relative peace of Iraqi Kurdistan has been a notable, if often overlooked,...

