Two years ago Washington accused Pyongyang of running a secret nuclear weapons program. But how much evidence was there to back up the charge? A review of the facts shows that the Bush administration misrepresented distorted the data--while ignoring the one real threat North Korea actually poses

As western Sudan continues to suffer much international attention has focused on whether to call what is happening there "genocide." Yet once the term was invoked it did not trigger outside intervention. Terminology turns out to matter far less than was expected. once more the world has dithered while people die

Thinking of modern jihad as simply a cultural extension of Islam is a Common unfortunate mistake. Two new books by Gilles Kepel Olivier Roy offer better historical sociological explanations but they are only a start.