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United Nations - In a bid to pressure policymakers to take urgent action to implement a major United Nations treaty on the preservation of plant and animal species, the …

Last week, Dahlia Lithwick had a terrific piece in Slate in which she ponders America's “Terrorism Derangement Syndrome [TDS].” America does seem to be in the grip of morbid …

Editor's note: The US-led offensive in Marjah was launched Friday afternoon. Please see this report for an update. The United States and NATO are poised to launch a major …

The Senate confirmed 27 Obama nominees yesterday after the president threatened to make appointments during the Senate's upcoming recess. On Tuesday, during a bipartisan meeting with Senate Minority Leader …

When Barbara Van Dahlen, a clinical psychologist in the Washington, DC, area, was on vacation in summer 2005, she was reading “Nonprofit Kit for Dummies.” Fast-forward to 2010 and …

When I saw the Afghans in refugee camps in Pakistan in 1992, I couldn’t believe what was happening. I left Afghanistan in 1970 to pursue my education in the …

While the US military continues to aggressively recruit Roman Catholic priests as chaplains, some Catholics question whether the military seeks priests as spiritual guides or as “force-multipliers.” Within the …

Fifty years ago this month, history took a great leap forward. On Feb. 1, 1960, four black students from Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down at …

An American college student was detained for over five hours at a Philadelphia airport because he was carrying a set of English-Arabic flashcards, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday …

For the second week in a row, the Senate Judiciary Committee refrained from voting on the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to head the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). The …