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Antigovernment protesters demonstrate in Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain, February 20, 2011. (Photo: Lynsey Addario / The New York Times) An unlikely alliance is the latest obstacle …

Demonstrators beat drums and chant “thieves” outside the Parliament building in Athens, Greece, on June 15, 2011. (Photo: Eirini Vourloumis / The New York Times) It looked …

Just a few of the U.S. military bases encircling Iran. Invasion of Iran on Hold Several years ago, looking at the alignment of forces in …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds an alleged Iranian missile manual as Defense Minister Ehud Barak looks on at a press conference near a ship seized in the Mediterranean …

Even if job growth were to improve through the rest of 2011, it would not be enough to reduce the unemployment rate. The Labor Department reported that …

The Progressive Caucus, in a letter being sent to President Obama today, says any budget deal he agrees to that contains cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid won't …

A six-year transportation funding bill that Republicans in the House of Representatives outlined Thursday would sharply cut highway and transit funding and seek to curb Amtrak and high-speed rail …

When I heard the news last week that the Department of Education is aiming to subject 4-year-olds to high-stakes testing, all I could do is shake my head in …

Suddenly Republican leaders in Congress, after months of staring down the Democrats over a potentially disastrous debt default, began blinking so fast that they might be signaling in Morse …

Having spent many conceited weeks amid the Strauss-Kahn case, listening to locals assert that America's justice is superior to France's, we're now pitchforked into the next debate. Could U.S. …