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Stockholm - A major weeklong international water conference opened in the Swedish capital Monday with an ominous warning: time is running out faster than fresh water. If the "massive …

North Korea's release of a fishing boat and its seven-man crew in exchange for humanitarian aid could bode well for North and South Korean reconciliation. South Korea on Tuesday …

The Washington, DC, rally promoted by Glenn Beck and Fox News on August 28, 2010, has been called a nonpolitical event by Beck and others. But conservative politicians have …

The fall issue of Foreign Policy magazine features Fred Kaplan’s “The Transformer,” an article-cum-interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. It received a flurry of attention because Gates indicated …

Racism today has been both reconfigured and made invisible with regard to its real victims.

If ever there were doubt about the relationship between the Catholic Church's spectacular failure to address the clerical child sex abuse crisis and the church's glaring system of gender …

The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) has developed a new international measure of poverty – the Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI – for the 20th Anniversary edition …

Obama to Back Business Tax Breaks With Stimulus Package

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti — A white sun beat high over Port-au-Prince as Orpha Dessources stepped from her tarpaulin newsroom into the city’s biggest slum, with a question no one wanted …

It is strangely comforting to see that the United States is not alone as it struggles in its morass of failed fiscal policy. P. O'Neill, a regular contributor to …