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The Israeli response to news that Palestinian factions had achieved a unity agreement was predictably irritating. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu derided the agreement in stark terms, saying that the …

In response to the worst state budget crisis since World War II, the Texas House has proposed slashing $27 billion from the budget, including huge cuts to education, nursing …

Washington - For years, the agonizing search for Osama bin Laden kept coming up empty. Then last July, Pakistanis working for the Central Intelligence Agency drove up behind a …

Rural scenery in Attalla, Alabama. (Photo: faungg (Fang Guo)/Flickr) Let me tell you about Alabama. There is a street in my father's hometown of Decatur, …

Washington - The flag-waving, horn-honking crowd that converged at the White House Sunday night was brimming with unrestrained joy, unmitigated patriotism and a sense of unlimited possibility — which …

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(Photo: Tom Haymes/Flickr) We got our man. Wave the flag, kiss a nurse (or a sailor) and start packing the equipment. It's time …

The plane I was on landed in Washington, DC, Sunday night, and the pilot came on the intercom to tell everyone to celebrate: our government had killed Osama bin …

Once again, Ecuador finds itself deeply divided leading up to the country's sixth popular referendum scheduled for Saturday, May 7. The current campaign exemplifies the ideological fragmentation currently afflicting …

This story has been co-published [1] with the Columbia Journalism Review [2].