Is Barack Obama naïve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system and some electoral reform? ...
Endings are rarely as joyous as beginnings--and in the case of a long, wearing, and ultimately disappointing campaign, they can be downright brutal. But they also have the potential to be educational, ...
A remark seen as a rebuke to Barack Obama likened those who would negotiate with “terrorists” to Nazi appeasers. ...
The three candidates say couples should be entitled to the legal protections afforded to married couples. ...
Barack Obama is unlikely to win the heart of Appalachia in the general election, but he may not need to if he can make up ground elsewhere. ...
Hope you enjoyed the nice cool spring, because this weekend, it comes to a screeching, sweating, red-faced halt. ...
Piles of broken concrete rose seven stories high and a few buildings stood askew, knocked at odd angles. People cried out the ... ...
House Republicans have set a special meeting for next Tuesday to try to find a way to turn around their political slide. ...
Ed Gillespie, gaggling to reporters today in Saudi Arabia, said that the White House really meant to Get Carter, not Obama: "We did not anticipate that it would be taken that way, because its kind of ...
Senator John McCain’s support for the war in Iraq, informed by his experience, is lonely but unwavering. ...
The surge in turnout Barack Obama has helped to generate could signal a threat to the Republican dominance of the South. ...
Obama says no one clapped when he told off automakers, but tape shows a standing ovation. ...
The Saudis announced that they had increased output starting on May 10, but they seemed to reject a request by President Bush, who was visiting, to raise oil production further. ...
OK, here's the latest on all the Jessica Simpson-Tony Romo splitsville rumors. ...
John McCain’s comments were a striking departure from his usual refusal to set a date for American withdrawal. ...
Selective memory, selective outrage. ...
Nuance. ...
China sought experts and equipment from Japan and Taiwan as President Hu Jintao visited the area affected by the earthquake. ...
Barack Obama today slammed President Bush for launching "exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and that alienates us from the world." He also took a shot at John McCain for e ...
This is the master politician? ...
Today, on her talk show, host Ellen DeGeneres applauded the California Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the state’s ban on gay marriage and announced that she would be wedding her long ...
Barack Obama has called President Bush's comments on appeasement "exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world." ...
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden -- in a blunt new message that coincides with Israel's 60th anniversary -- urged his followers to liberate Palestine, a terrorism analyst told CNN on Friday. ...
The official death toll from Myanmar's devastating May 2-3 cyclone has jumped to nearly 78,000, state television reported Friday. ...
Bush conceded the current level of Saudi Arabia's oil output isn't the prime factor driving today's oil spike, after the Saudi king rebuffed the president's request for higher oil production. The exch ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 16 -- Saudi leaders told President Bush on Friday they are doing all they can to increase oil production, gently turning aside the president's efforts to bring down prices mo ...
FALLUJAH, May 12 (IPS) - Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah. ...
BAQUBA, May 9 (IPS) - Water supply is drying out in what was once the agriculturally rich Diyala province north of Baghdad. Baquba, the capital city of Diyala, is now running out of water both for ...
With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy running out of time — and perhaps air — the campaign has taken on a distinctly subdued mood. ...
Exit polls show President Leonel Fernandez could win a third term on Friday and capture enough votes to avoid a run-off. ...
Matt Phillips reports on the presidential race from Portland, Ore. Hillary Clinton, trying to catch up to Barack Obama in the hunt for the Democratic nomination, continues to press a long-shot plan to ...
To-do list 1 Spring brings flowers and green and lots of birds! ...
I've been a big fan of Harper's Index since forever. Footnoted statistics, often grouped in pairs, triplets or foursomes, guaranteed to spark a chuckle or a discussion. Like, for instance, this item f ...
Remember that Pentagon program, revealed last month, that fed talking points to supposedly objective military analysts to push the Bush administration's line on Iraq? ...
A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday as emergency crews rescued more than 30 people who had survived up to 100 ...
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