American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.