Sooner or later the U.S. tax code will be reformed. Probably sooner. Raising revenue will be the main motivation, but issues of fairness as…
The United States is a nation of immigrants. Except for a small number of Native Americans, everyone is originally from somewhere else, and…
As America faces the fiscal cliff, the impossible becomes conceivable. Finally, we face the possibility of reducing the home mortgage…
Al Jazeera’s global headquarters fill a sandy patch of land on the outskirts of Doha. Only the security is impressive; the campus itself is…
Egyptians living abroad began voting Dec. 12 on whether to accept the nation’s proposed new constitution. Yet, even as they took to the…
Qatar is a small country. It is made big, in the sense of influence and importance, because it has a lot of oil and does not think small.…
There are very few “teaching moments” in politics, but the drama surrounding the current debate over the fiscal cliff is one of them. As it…
Oscar Niemeyer, who died last week, was a controversial giant. Best known for designing a new capital city for his native Brazil and the UN…
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