The U.S. Senate: Stalling Hemispheric Arms Control
In 1997, President Bill Clinton, standing beside Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo in the Organization of American States’ flag-bedecked Hall of ...
The Candidates and Latin America
With an increasing number of presidential primaries occurring around the country in the very early part of 2008, those of ...
Washington Loosens the Knot (Just a Little)
It was a far cry from the opening even many Republican moderates had urged, but Bill Clinton's announcement in early ...
Human Rights…”In the Soul of Our Foreign Policy
When Jimmy Carter took office in 1977 U.S. foreign policy clearly bore the stamp of the Nixon-Kissinger years. Its cornerstone ...
The Internal Policy Debate
Looking beyond crude electoral calculations, a number of Clinton's foreign-policy specialists have pushed internally for a moderate relaxation of sanctions ...
Washington’s Addiction to the War on Drugs
When Republican Congressional leaders intro- duced a S2.6 billion drug-war proposal July this year, including S300 million for the construction ...
The War at Home-Security and Terrorism
One of the first acts of the new Republican-dominated Senate Judi- ciary Committee was to create a Subcommittee on Security ...
Overseeing the Overseers
PATRICK LEAHY, DEMOCRATIC SENATOR from Vermont, ranking member of the Senate In- telligence Oversight Committee, votes against contra aid. In ...
