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Though conventional wisdom says that President Barack Obama has suffered a terrible year in 2013, much of this analysis simply marches in lockstep with the neocon view of Obamau2019s …

I first saw Washington, DC in 1974. I was astonished with the Greek vision of architecture on Capitol Hill.

Frank Richards remembers how Officers of both sides of a war came to an understanding that the unofficial truce during trench warfare on Christmas.

Fifty years ago, exactly one month after John Kennedy was killed, the Washington Post published an op-ed titled

December 23rd, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, warranting a review of its performance. Has it achieved the purposes for which it was designed?

Rebecca Solnit: The past explodes from time to time, and many events that once seemed to have achieved nothing turn out to do their work slowly.

Reading Save our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress is like sitting in on a seminar on the modern labor movementu2014with Steve Early playing the role of opinionated …

As the Executive Secretary for the Gore-Mbeki Commission Environment Committee, I sat at the negotiating table while the newly elected government of Nelson Mandela formulated its environmental policies.

There were, to be sure, profound errors made by the Palestinian leader - not the least of which was the trust he placed in the agreements he signed.

Turkey is a secular state. So its government and nearly all mainstream Western media claim. They are mistaken.