Op-Ed

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (twice voted America's Most Livable City) shifted their property tax off buildings and onto land. (Photo: dougtone) The obese American is not just a person; …

A summer evening. 1990. Perfect weather. My wife and I are with Hungarian friends, eating at a sidewalk café on a tree-lined street in Budapest. They’re troubled. …

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives on stage for an event at Keiser University's Sarasota campus, in Sarasota, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New …

Demonstrators react during a march through city center Hama, in Syria, July 16, 2011. “Come on Bashar, leave,” is a song that in the weeks since it was heard …

Leonard Peltier, a great-grandfather, artist, writer, and indigenous rights activist, is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations and has been imprisoned since 1976. (Photo: Leonard Peltier Defense …

Former Massachusetts Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets attendees at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 11, 2011. (Photo: Eric Thayer / The New …

CAIRO – As the violence in Syria mounts, the international community’s paralysis has become increasingly jarring. But the role of external regional forces is almost as important in fueling …

The political world is abuzz with a heat-of-the-moment comment by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that is starkly revealing. Here's how The Huffington Post reported it: …

Is Western Democracy coming apart at the seams? A decade ago, only paranoid alarmists would have posed that question. Today, it may be an expression of …

Does anyone really think that Standard & Poor's downgrade of US debt would have occurred unless there had been the Congressional stand-off on raising the debt ceiling? For all …