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Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
While the problem of unemployment in the Arab world seems insurmountable, there are a number of initiatives being implemented and proffered in the region to begin to put a dent in the problem.
Mira Kamdar | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
With the appointment of Rajiv Shah to head USAID, it's deja-vu all over again for the Obama administration. Welcome to Camelot redux, the 1960's re-engineered for the 2010s.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.14.2009 | Comedy
Hours after scientists confirmed finding evidence of water on the moon, the United States and China each announced ambitious plans to become the first nation to pollute the moon's water.
Rob Warmowski | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
For my entire adult life, I have watched free-market fundamentalists do their thing. They demonize government, run for government, capture government, then dismantle and privatize government.
Der Spiegel | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
When US President Barack Obama visits China this weekend, he will encounter a rival that sees the financial crisis as more of an opportunity than a th...
Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
Today, November 10, the United States Marine Corps celebrates its 234th birthday, and social media is commemorating the historic date. The official...
David Parker | Posted 11.07.2009 | Comedy
Any time an American does anything at all, it is a demonstration of his or her support for, or opposition to, the President and his policies. Paying attention, Russia? That's how democracy works.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
The Iranians are still coming. In droves. Despite the intermittent media coverage in the United States, Iranians have not yet stopped protesting the...
Rahim Kanani | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
With a litany of crises to deal with, now more than ever, President Obama needs his army of advocates once more to continue the fight for change.
wsj.com | a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The U.S. sent its highest-ranking delegation of diplomats to Myanmar in more than a decade Tuesday as it intensified its efforts to encourage democrat...
Javier Corrales | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
This week, the United States helped bring an end to a serious political crisis in Honduras. A similar crisis is now brewing in Nicaragua, but this time, the United States won't be as lucky.
Leslie Grossman | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
There was good news and bad news in the Gender Gap Index. The good news is that the health and education gaps are being closed. The bad news is that the economic and political gaps are not.
Betwa Sharma | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.
David Quigg | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The basic grim truths that Matthew Hoh wrote about in his much-quoted resignation letter were all basically true when he took his job a few months ago.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Why, with so much going for him and his country, should the president of Brazil make such controversial choices in his friends? The logic of the relationship with Iran is perplexing.
Susan Sawyers | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
When it comes to the gender gap, the United States is in a bad spot. Out of 134 countries, our democratic nation comes in 31st place.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
The ungrateful chauvinism of U.S. foreign policy reaches far beyond a rant provided by Joe Scarborough, who at least has the excuse of being in the business of manufacturing polemics.
Harut Sassounian | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
Playing the skillful political games of their Ottoman predecessors, Turkey's current masters present their country under various guises -- as European...
AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
HARRISBURG, Pa. — An African man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in the United States, caring for the elderly and sick, is back in his ho...
Zachary Karabell | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
Nothing will shape domestic life and prosperity in the United States more than the emergence of China as a global economic superpower.
Sanjay Khanna | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
What kind of person would you need to become, what kind of community would you need to be a part of, and what kind of process would it take to be able to experience a twenty-first century of increasing unpredictability and loss?
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
The vitriol against Obama's peace prize and "those Norwegians" who gave it to him is much deeper than the president's lack of achievements thus far; it is based on a fundamental clash of worldviews.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
A small group of conservative Japanese defense officials have spread the view that if the United States reduces its nuclear arsenal, then Japan will build its own nuclear bombs.
Telegraph | James Quinn | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
The poll will fuel the ongoing debate as to whether London or New York is the best place to do business for financial communities, amid recent reports...
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business