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At the end of 2011, the horrendous violence of the Egyptian military police, which is routinely carried out off camera in the privacy of dark, filthy cells in the …

The CMRR Facility plans, also on LANL web site. (Photo: LANL / LANS under US Department of Energy) By all accounts, the cold war came to an …

Separation of church and state is a defining issue for Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

(Photo: yanivba) As the crimson sun slipped into the gray Pacific Ocean, a multibillion-dollar drug deal took shape. A group of board-certified doctors greeted each other in …

In early January the Obama Administration released the Pentagon’s new Guidance, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. Designed less to cut U.S. military spending than to …

(Photo: Mario De Carli) “We see what we want to see,” my grandmother used to say. This insight visited me recently after I ran across the mall …

He is, in the words of Barbara Walters, a “mild-mannered ophthalmologist.” Indeed, the rather squeamish leader-to-be chose eye surgery because it didn’t involve much blood. He speaks fluent English …

Cambridge - European political leaders may be about to agree to a fiscal plan which, if implemented, could push Europe into a major depression. To understand why, it is …

Open pit copper mine run by London-based mining conglomerate Rio Tinto/Kennecott in Bingham Canyon, Utah. It is the world's largest open-pit mine and has created the world's largest …

Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so. Throughout the scramble for …