When Arshad Kaleem left Baton Rouge for Pakistan two weeks ago to attend ceremonies following his mother's funeral, his wife Saima posted her fears online by updating her Facebook status. Bombings erupted in Lahore just hours after Kaleem boarded his flight.

Saima Zaman-Kaleem is glad Arshad is...

This Tuesday, an Israeli reporter described her experience attending a Holocaust Remembrance day ceremony in Tel Aviv, where she and others were frisked a number of times before being permitted to enter.

The writer outlines her growing discomfort with the affair as she finds the Prime Minister's opening...

On Tuesday night, in a tele-town hall meeting with Organizing For America, the online group headed by now-President Obama's organizing guru, David Plouffe, a dialogue on politics lumbered forward. Plouffe and others on the call described how they hoped to harness a political machine, the one they helped build,...

The inherent problem, of course, when speaking about billions of dollars in economic stimulus is that it's hard for most of us to figure what each billion actually means -- I mean, geez, who can imagine it?

But even in a billion-dollar plan, one thing's always easy to spot --...

In his latest blog post, economist Paul Krugman has questioned the President-elect's choice for Surgeon-General, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent at CNN who anchors a range of medical affairs and documentary programming for the cable network.

Krugman brings the weight of his influence to bear on the...

60 years this week, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Gay activists suggested marking the occasion by boycotting businesses, refraining from work and attending protests to demonstrate against Proposition 8, a measure to ban gay marriage in California State that regrettably...

PRINCETON, N.J. -- At another moment, Jane Lewis might have looked to her classmates like yet another peeved aid worker.

But when she began her presentation on war-torn Congo at Princeton University last week, her peers were listening. They were, after all, a part of the under-30, post '08-election...

Photo: Baby pumpkins in the windowsill of a Bethlehem home.

On the eve of Diwali, known less formally as the Hindu New...

In a startlingly narrow race to the presidency where one candidate has outspent the other two-to-one but is pulling past nationally by just a few points, rather than fearing the "Bradley effect" as analysts have done by fixating on the leading candidate's race, it may be time to keep tabs...

Half the voters who cast ballots in the Democratic primary in Georgia this past February were African-American (the state went to Obama). Despite long lines, incidents in which machines broke down and polls closed unexpectedly (rather than staying open late), black voters managed to show in record numbers.

Voting...

The grand questions, “Who’s dumb and who’s smart, attractive and eats fresh arugula salad” has become catnip on political blogs and in cable news shows. It's raised ubiquitously – you almost can’t read a word of media drivel without seeing it sometimes, the euphemisms directed at working class votes somewhere...