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The news that Al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen sought to detonate a sophisticated explosive on a passenger flight is disturbing, though not…
Francois Hollande’s dramatic victory in Sunday’s French presidential election could turn out to be one of this year’s most significant…
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The dramatic events in Beijing surrounding the brave Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, are confounding and hard to fathom at such a great…
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Who killed Osama bin Laden? Former political leaders, military brass, and intelligence chieftains are all staking their claims, as if there…
Since the middle of the last century, the American labor movement has been in steady decline. In the early 1950s, around one-third of the…
Is the Colombia prostitution scandal rocking the Secret Service an isolated incident? Or is it evidence of a debauched organizational…