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With two weeks to go in the 2010 mid-term elections there are a number of good reasons to believe — contrary to most conventional wisdom — that Democrats will …

Through his lawyers in Turkey, Ahmet Dogan, the father of Furkan Dogan, the 19-year-old American citizen who was executed by Israeli commandos, has challenged the U.S. government's lack of …

In his farewell address to the nation, George Washington's mediation on partisanship was: "... the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of the party are sufficient to make …

These days there seem to be two types of thinkers in the world of central banking. On one side there are the serious people, who believe that central banks …

As we all know, there is a major philosophical divide in US politics. On the one hand, there are those who think it is the role of government to …

Looming losses from ForeclosureGate qualify as the sort of systemic risk warranting the breakup of the too-big-to-fail banks under the new financial reform bill. The new Financial Stability Oversight …

Washington - Massachusetts prison inmates have lost a bid to regain their voting rights after claiming that a state referendum diluted black and Hispanic political clout because of the …

United Nations - Nearly than two years after the Declaration on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity was proposed to the United Nations General Assembly, many civil society groups say …

Washington - The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the detention and interrogation of an …

Paul Krugman has drawn attention to the plight of Ecuador, noting that, since the country does not have an exchange rate policy (and hence a monetary policy), it stood …