Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah quit an election run-off on Sunday after accusing the government of not meeting his demands for a fair vote,…
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Washington – In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told…
Household disposable income stagnated in September, and spending fell 0.5 percent, the government reported. The figures call into question the strength of the economic…
An area of land known simply in California as ‘the Delta’ has undergone a rapid decline and this long-term tragedy has spurred state legislators and the governor to…
It is difficult to imagine how any democracy could not be corrupted when war becomes the foundation of politics.
The White Man’s Burden, a phrase immortalized by English poet Rudyard Kipling as an excuse for European-American imperialism, was front and center October 29, 2009, at a RAND-sponsored…
Evidence has surfaced over the years that shows Dick Cheney played a central role in the campaign to discredit Ambassador Wilson and may even have given the order…
Everyone expects to see and hear some strange stuff whenever Halloween comes around. The definition of ‘strange,’ however, gets bent into all sorts of bizarre new shapes whenever…
George W. Bush made his debut as a motivational speaker to a packed house of adoring fans in Fort Worth, Texas.
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has played the “ugly American” in Tokyo, cast in a role he should not have been given.