Kevin Canfield

Nancy Soderberg, a senior foreign policy adviser to Bill Clinton from 1992 to end of his second term in 2001, discusses her new book, The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might. What is the myth of the superpower? It’s the belief that the lone superpower can bend the world to its will, […]

Arianna Huffington watches the Golf Channel. OK, maybe not. But the self-described “former conservative who saw the light” was only half-joking this week when she said she was about ready to give up on cable news. That FOX News Channel is in the pocket of the Republican Party is not a revelation. But when news […]

At a NATO meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 28, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice slipped a paper to President George W. Bush informing him that coalition forces in Baghdad had transferred power to an interim Iraqi government. “Mr. President, Iraq is sovereign,” Rice wrote. “Letter was passed from [Paul] Bremer at 10:26 a.m. Iraq […]

Hans Blix is a big tease. Hyped by political websites and excerpted in the Guardian (U.K.), Blix’s new book, Disarming Iraq (Pantheon), promised to deliver the real story behind the run-up to the war in Iraq. But ever the even-handed diplomat, Blix writes like a man afraid to offend, and in doing fails to deliver […]