America was founded on the principles of democracy but over the last couple of years it seems as if we are doing the exact opposite. This idea helped me to better understand why the American government has become an active participant in foreign affairs. After both discussing and watching a video on...

A suicide car bomber struck the U.S. intelligence headquarters here Tuesday evening, killing himself and an Iraqi child and wounding more than 50 people, including six U.S. personnel, local people and the U.S. military said Wednesday. It was the fifth car bomb attack in Iraq in five weeks. Iraqis...

many 20th century dictators used a form of totalitarianism to rise and maintain power. totalitarianism describes a government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life ( pattern of interactions) totalitarian leaders, such as saddam Hussein practiced the...