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Angry Voters Flood Streets as Several Candidates Reject Haiti Election
Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Frustrated voters flooded the streets and several presidential candidates called for the government to annul Sunday’s Haiti election due to problems at polls throughout the country. …
Ezra Klein | The Great Risk Shift: Your Retirement Is Now Your Problem
You've heard of the Social Security crisis. And you've probably heard that the pensions promised to state employees are terribly underfunded. And maybe you've even heard that most Americans …
E.J. Dionne Jr., Blaming Obama’s America First
Washington - Can we govern ourselves in the next two years? Do Republicans have any interest in accomplishments that might even indirectly benefit President Obama? These questions hang over …
Nuclear Winter
WikiLeaks Releases State Department Cables
Editor's Note: The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel have published stories this afternoon revealing details of the State Department cables.
The Naked Truth About Capital Gains
When it comes to taxes on capital gains, the emperor suddenly has no clothes. He's been stripped bare, in bipartisan fashion, by the co-chairs of President Obama's fiscal commission. …
Haitian Women and Elections: Presidents, Politics and Power
Reconstructing Haiti is not about buildings, projects or money. It's about power, about who gets to control what the future Haiti looks like. Redistributing power and creating a new …
Grasslands Preserve the Lonely Prairie
West from Sioux Falls, hundreds of miles of rolling South Dakota corn eventually morph into one of this country’s largest remaining national grasslands, a portion of what is now …
Economic Boom Worsened Deindustrialization of Least Developed Countries
Geneva - Least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa did not use the commodity export boom of the mid-2000s to diversify their economies from commodity dependence to manufacturing value-added products. …
Israeli Government Documents Show Deliberate Policy to Restrict Food to Gaza
Documents, whose existence were denied by the Israeli government for over a year, have been released after a legal battle led by Israeli human rights group, Gisha. The documents …