Obama is distancing himself from Bush’s pro-democracy agenda. Activists are worried about the consequences.
Tara McKelvey
Tara McKelvey, a senior editor at the Prospect, is a research fellow at NYU School of Law’s Center on Law and Security and the author of Monstering: Inside America's Policy on Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War.
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Remembrances of Battles
The unpacking of war memories is a fragile and brutal affair. But it’s a necessary one to determine the truths of combat.
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Russia and Its Nukes.
The “reset” between Russia and the United States has not been going particularly well, especially since Russian officials have balked at agreeing to oppose harsher sanctions on Iran. Nevertheless, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty — or START agreement — between the United States and Russia has been touted as the one area where the two […]
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The Ghost of Anna Politkovskaya.
Hillary Clinton and Obama adviser Michael McFaul may have made it seem as though the United States had become less interested in supporting democracy and human-rights advocates in Russia, but today United Nations experts made their views about these issues crystal clear and addressed the blatant abuses that have taken place in the country in […]
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Russia and Democracy.
Did Michael McFaul, President Barack Obama’s top adviser on Russia, tell the Kremlin on Monday that democracy in Russia was less important to the United States than before — or was there simply a misunderstanding? Russian officials thought that was what he said, according to The Moscow Times, although later a U.S. Embassy spokesman said […]
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Hillary Clinton in Moscow.
The Russians have told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that they are not keen on imposing new sanctions against Iran in order to thwart its efforts to develop nuclear weapons,reports The New York Times . This should not come as a surprise, since the Russians have shown signs that they were not particularly enthusiastic about […]
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Russia, Iran, and Nukes.
Are Russian nuclear scientists helping Iranians build a nuclear warhead? For years, people have been concerned that Russian scientists would take off and help some rogue country, whether Iran or North Korea, develop weapons. As DavidHoffman, author of The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the ColdWar Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, said in […]
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Journalism in Russia.
One of the problems that journalists — both foreign and Russian — have while working in Moscow is one of perception. Namely, journalists believe that they are working in an environment in which they can report the news fairly and impartially without being penalized for their work. Sadly, that has not been the case in […]
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The Specter of Containment
Should we approach today’s nuclear threats using Cold War policy?
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The Military’s War on Journalists.
People in the Army have long been wary of journalists, but rarely do soldiers actually kill them. It does happen, though. David Finkel, a Pulitzer-Prize winning Washington Post reporter, describes the killings of two Reuters journalists in Baghdad in 2007 in his new book, The Good Soldiers . “The Reuters photographer and driver were carrying […]
