The Arab Spring - Tunisia, Egypt - we know about these places. But Bahrain is almost never in the news.... more

"But we're Americans. We don't lose wars."  False!  Ambassador and former National Security Advisor Tony Lake takes a hard look... more

Like Chicago mobsters, hard line parties grab to divvy up the riches after the genocide in Bosnia has stopped. Ambassador... more

Or a traitor, anyway.  In an eerily quiet region during the Vietnam war, from a banana grove in the middle... more

Again in honor both of Black History Month and Linda Thomas-Greenfield's recent appointment as US ambassador to the United Nations,... more

Mohammed Bouazizi, an underemployed fruit seller, sets himself on fire, launching what we later began calling the Arab Spring.  Ambassador... more

In honor of upcoming Black History Month, and in honor of the new administration, we repost our first episode with... more

Dan Kurtzer, Ambassador to both Egypt and Israel, parses this complex part of the world from his experience on the... more

The worst of the worst: Victor Bout, Russian arms dealer, is not the only one. A a host of other... more

What exactly is dirty money, and how is it laundered?  How much of it flows through the world, and the United States... more