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Negotiations on a deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions and head off global warming were suspended Monday morning in Copenhagen, with poorer countries charging wealthier nations aren't prepared to …

With the release of the so-called “torture” memos and now the full Senate Armed Services Committee's report on detainee treatment, the debate over detainee abuse has focused on further …

On Veterans Day 2009, President Barack Obama walked through the headstones in Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, DC. He was deliberating his impending decision to escalate and then terminate …

Senate Democrats who thought they had found a workable compromise on health care reform learned otherwise from independent Sen. Joe Lieberman over the weekend.

The Economist's latest article on global developments in agriculture involuntarily provides arguments for critics of free trade: the stampede for poor countries' lands, price volatility and, above all, the …

O.K., I have now said something nice about Goldman Sachs. And, there is actually some truth in this title. Some people have pointed out that Goldman Sachs is one …

The question is: Can the US government force the dismissal of a lawsuit against it simply by claiming that national security would be endangered if the suit went ahead? …

Forbes.com has an article up called “The Fiction of Climate Science” (12/4/09). Thanks no doubt to a link from Drudge, it's currently one of the website's “top rated,” "most …

President Barack Obama noted last week after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize that the United States “has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades.” While this was …

Current climate legislation and the Kyoto Protocol are undermining the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Or so contends a cautionary article that appeared in October's peer-reviewed journal of …