The Bush administration is big on labels. You might say they are geniuses at sloganeering. Remember the Clean Skies Initiative, that actually increased air pollution? How about No Child Left Behind, ...

Months after an election in Iraq, there is still no new prime minister or president. The reason for this is that political ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. To shift the focus further east for a few minutes, we turn today to that other Middle East conflict, Iraq, and a question whose ...

The slide towards civil war in Iraq is palpable, as Shiites and Sunnis clash across the country in the wake of the Golden Mosque bombing in Samarra. Still, it is not not yet irreversible — because it ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- America's hand-wringing over whether the violence in Iraq amounts to a civil war, while on the surface a semantic distinction, mirrors deeper divisions over how far the United States ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. To read reports of the continuing violence in Iraq is to risk a bad case of dej? vu. Each time the violence ...

As Israel calls up reserves and prepares for a ground attack, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced plans to visit the region. Meantime, American and Iraqi officials argue that 150,000 ...

The threat level for Kurdistan remains high, especially for Erbil Airport, the U.S. Consulate-General, major hotels, dams, and roads,' warned Kurdish expert Ceng Sagnic.

WASHINGTON – Dealing with a civil war in Iraq would be the responsibility of Iraq’s own security forces, at least initially, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told Congress yesterday. Testifying alongside ...