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From reading the headlines Tuesday on President Obama's jobs program, you might think that all the president has to do is to tap into the unexpected $200 billion in …

From now on, the headlines about Afghanistan will be slugged “Obama's War,” and perhaps that is fair enough given the president's many endorsements of what he has called a …

Most economists, media outlets and politicos judge economic performance by such statistical indicators as the Dow Jones Average. Aren't there better indicators than stock prices?

Police have presented a subversion case against prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, raising the likelihood that he will face trial and then prison. The move furthers China's crackdown on …

The Fed chairman Ben Bernanke could have acted to burst America's housing bubble – and yet he did nothing.

Barack Obama is trying once again for balance. On the one hand, he wants enough government spending to offset the timid spending of consumers and businesses. Otherwise, the jobs …

African immigrants are given drinks inside a hospital tent in Los Cristianos on the Canary island of Tenerife, Spain. The Spanish government set up operations in African countries to …

Eagle Peak Rock and Paving created and saved 32 jobs thanks to an $8 million federal stimulus contract to repair Glacier Point Road in Yosemite National Park. But you …

The latest story out of Copenhagen has to do with a leaked draft agreement put together by Denmark, the U.S., and the UK. According to the Guardian‘s breathless coverage, …

For anyone who has studied Guantánamo's military commissions closely over the last eight years, it was obvious that their revival last week, in a supposedly new and improved form, …