| Oct 11, 2010 | Peace / SecurityIn late September, tear gas and the smoke from burning tires filled the air as Ecuador’s president was held hostage in a police hospital. For people throughout the Americas, Ecuador’s attempted coup brought flashbacks of the June 2009 coup in Honduras....
| Sep 20, 2010 | Peace / SecurityHere’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package, which includes an op-ed by Karen Dolan outlining policies that would reduce the startling number of impoverished Americans. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly...
| | Peace / SecurityDid you know the Atlantic coast of Honduras features miles of stunning undeveloped beaches frequented only by local villagers? Or that its Mayan ruins at Copán are as haunting and spectacular as what you’d find in Guatemala or southern Mexico? Maybe that sounds...
| | Peace / SecurityRecently, the United Nations expressed new concern about a crisis many Americans know little about: the use of child soldiers in global conflicts, especially in Somalia. Somalia, whose government collapsed in 1991, has been in a constant state of conflict and tension...
| Sep 13, 2010 | Peace / SecurityUntil 9/11, most Americans didn’t believe that a terrorist attack could ever happen on U.S. soil. Yet one had occurred just a generation earlier–on September 21, 1976 on Embassy Row in Washington. One of the victims was New Jersey-born Ronni Karpen...
| | Peace / SecurityAfter 20 hearings and more than four months of debate, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is gearing up to vote on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed in April. New START...
