With a second summit between the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, scheduled for the end of this month in Vietnam, the timing for John Feffer’s latest�…
More than 200 years ago, the poet Wordsworth observed that "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers." Today, "getting and spending" remains a fixation, and we are inundated in ways tha…
The fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of the 20th century. It happened suddenly on the evening of November 9, 1989 when thousands of East Germans decided to take hi…
The artist Hasan Elahi was detained in the aftermath of 9/11 and subjected to six months of questioning by the FBI. Elahi comes from Bangladesh, and the FBI was very interested in travel iti…
John Feffer is on leave from his position as the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies in order to travel as an Open Society Fellow. He is t…
"DC is just one big ladder. The higher you climb, the fewer people that can s**t on you." John Feffer That's Peter Peters, resident foreign policy expert at The Center, a Washington think ta…
Republican firebrand Newt Gingrich is known for his dramatic flourishes, whether the Contract with America from 1994 or his more recent proposal to colonize the Moon. During this primary…
- John Feffer is a funny guy who is engaged in the somber business of writing and lecturing on foreign policy. But three years ago, he tried something new and stepped onto a Fringe stage wit…