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Whenever leaders of India and the United States meet, we hear inevitably of the “largest democracy” and the “greatest democracy.” President Barack Obama's visit to India on November 6-8, …

Management divorced from leadership privatizes hope, deskills teachers and treats students as consumers.

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday to leave the military's “don't ask, don't tell” ban on openly gay members in effect while a lower court reviews a federal judge's …

If the G-20 is going to be nothing more than a talking shop on economic issues, they ought to at least talk about the economic problems that really matter, …

Unlike QE1, QE2 is not about saving the banks. It's about saving the country from Greek-like austerity measures necessitated by a burgeoning federal debt.

Americans keep odd things up on the mantelpiece, or in the fridge: Dad's ashes in a biscuit tin or, in Barbara Bush's case, as her eldest son has just …

Release of House-Bound Burma Opposition Leader Anticipated

When the Obama administration launched its flagship foreclosure prevention program in early 2009, it pledged to spend up to $50 billion helping struggling homeowners. But the government has so …

We’re in for another round of budget-deficit mania. The first draft of the President’s deficit commission, written by its co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, is a pastiche of …

A year ago, it seemed possible—likely, even—that President Barack Obama would sweep into the international negotiations on climate change at Copenhagen and make serious progress on the tangle of …