Blair’s critics should not dismiss the significant policy achievements of the past ten years, notably on two issues that are currently being debated in the United States – the national minimum wage and union recognition.

The Republican presidential candidates are a pretty incoherent, hateful, confused, and sometimes paranoid bunch of nincompoops. But they have made one thing clear: vote for them and the war in Iraq will go on and on and on.

On June 21, 2007 the New York State legislative session is expected to end without any reform of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. To most people it will not mean much. But to Veronica Flournoy it will.

By taking over Gaza by force, Hamas has successfully completed the process that Israel started of separating the Gaza Strip from the West Bank.

The Summit of the Group of Eight that ended on June 8 in Heiligendamm in Germany issued the chair’s summary on political and security issues and a declaration on the world economy.

Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament, demanded justice today for victims of Agent Orange, which the United States used to bomb Vietnam during its war on that country.

Catching everyone by surprise, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on June 8 that sections of Bill 29, the Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act passed by the Campbell Liberal government in 2002, violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Reading Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's outline of his intended foreign policy posture in the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs was for me much like that moment when the drowning swimmer finally reaches the surface and takes a first gasp of fresh air.