How much have U.S. foreign policy challenges changed over the past 60 years?

What does 21st-century Washington have in common with 17th-century France?

How did Western civilization accumulate enough political, military and economic power to dominate the world?

Why are so many Americans so conspicuously silent on the issue of gun control?

Did former U.S. President Jimmy Carter achieve his political ambitions only after his presidency?

How did Mali-born Afropop artist Salif Keita go from riches to rags and back again?

What would be the global economic fallout of a strike by U.S. longshoremen?

Why should developing nations remain in control about their fate?

How can the West lead a responsible crisis management policy?

How could a U.S. attack on Iraq be damaging to the geo-strategic balance of the Middle East?