Stephen Glain is a freelance journalist and author based in Paris. For two decades, as a correspondent for the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> and <em>Newsweek</em>, he covered Asia, the Middle East and the policy sausage factories of Washington, D.C. He is the author of two books: <em>Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants: The Economic Collapse of the Arab World</em> (St. Martin’s Press, 2004) and <em>State vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America’s Empire</em> (Crown Books, 2011).

NATO of the Living Dead

[caption id="attachment_55235300" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Army soldiers operating under the NATO-sponsored International Security…

Downward Pressure

[caption id="attachment_55233662" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An investor watches his stocks at a securities exchange in Shanghai on August 22,…

The Republican Vision

[caption id="attachment_55233828" align="alignnone" width="620"] Clint Eastwood speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention […

Islamophobia in the United States

[caption id="attachment_55233946" align="alignnone" width="475"] (credit: CAIR, UC Berkeley)[/caption]I recommend to readers a special edition…

Manifest Destiny

[caption id="attachment_55233975" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A girl listens to Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan…

Roots of the Arab Uproar

[caption id="attachment_55234090" align="alignnone" width="620"] Angry protests in the Middle East over a US made film mocking the prophet Muhammed[…

The Threat of Sequestration

[caption id="attachment_55234247" align="alignnone" width="600"] President Obama and Speaker John Boehner's failure to reach a spending and revenue…

A Failing Drug War

[caption id="attachment_55234346" align="alignnone" width="620"] Members of Mexico's Caravan for Peace call for an end to the Drug War at Freedom…

The Turnaround Specialist

[caption id="attachment_55234500" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney[/caption]Opening his speech on…

Better Late than Never

[caption id="attachment_55234725" align="alignnone" width="620"] France's President Francois Hollande delivers a speech at the Senegalese National…