News Analysis

In the world of principle and international law, the ongoing Israeli blockade of Gaza - which, until now, blocks Gazans from traveling to the West Bank and East Jerusalem, …

Ken and Donna Paulsen give away T-shirts at a straw poll in Ames, Iowa, Aug. 13, 2011. (Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times) The validity …

If anyone still questioned who owns Washington, the Congressional supercommittee charged with reducing projected deficits by $1.2 trillion seems determined to end any doubts. According to press accounts, both …

The mortgage securitization industry has just had a new major front open on its battle with those who are less than happy with the way it has run roughshod …

Monica has it good. A junior at Bard High School Early College on the Lower East Side, she has a twice-weekly health class this semester that includes one unit …

The world has had little reason to pay attention to the intensifying human rights meltdown in Fiji at the hands of the ruling military junta. After all, it hasn’t …

Congress may be gridlocked, but that doesn’t mean President Obama’s hands are tied. On Wednesday the president announced that he’s moving to ease Americans’ student debt load with an …

House Republicans took the government to the brink of shutdown last spring by demanding across-the-board budget cuts to many vital programs. Instead of focusing on job creation, as Americans …

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted last week to implement recommendations from the Near-Term Task Force Review of Insights from the Fukushima Daiichi Accident, and to do so “without …

San Francisco— Numerologists and The History Channel, known for its occult versions of world events, will have their heyday with two digits that, when arranged in certain sequence, foretold …