News Analysis

Since the 1960s, the Republican and Democratic parties have diverged in behavior – as well as over issues such as war and social programs – with the Republicans sometimes …

Americans are usually forgiving when they vote a man into the White House and he wants a second term. Of the last eight elected presidents, all but two — …

For many Iran observers, Washington’s latest accusations against Iran — implicating members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States …

Village girls wait as the Afghan National Police unload a shipment of humanitarian aid at their village in Gozarah, Afghanistan, Feb. 4. (Photo: U.S. Air Force TSgt Laura K. …

Occupy D.C. activists outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, November 4th. (Photo: Andrew Bossi) Time was when David Koch could bring his Americans for Prosperity Foundation …

President Barack Obama meets with his National Security Staff in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Nov. 2, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) One …

Hasbara is the Hebrew word for a particular type of pernicious propaganda first employed by early Zionists leaders to explain the unexplainable actions of the Jewish administration in Palestine. …

(Photo: Justin Bianchi / Flickr) Rachel Schragis is a 25-year-old New York City-based artist, educator and activist who created a flow-chart visualization of the Declaration of the …

Ronald Reagan’s election in November 1980 set off celebrations in the well-to-do communities of Central America. After four years of Jimmy Carter’s human rights nagging, the region’s anticommunist hard-liners …

The G-20 meeting in Cannes got underway this week. The sunny beach resort, playground to movie stars and media moguls was an odd choice for a somber G-20 meeting. …