The US has overextended itself on international security matters, failing to gain widespread cooperation with the international community in recent years. As a result, the US has failed in achieving some major goals – promoting democracy, defeating terror and encouraging free trade to alleviate...
Summary: Deep divisions at home about the nature of the United States' engagement with the world threaten to produce failed leadership abroad -- and possibly isolationism. To steady U.S. global leadership and restore...
Britons cast their fateful votes two and a half years ago, narrowly deciding in favor of withdrawing from the European Union. What followed has been a string of broken promises, failed agreements, no-confidence votes and cabinet resignations. Prime Minister Theresa May has defied tradition by...
Some individual states have attempted to mandate the purchase of health insurance, with mixed results. For instance, Massachusetts offers subsidies for some people above the federally determined poverty line, but the rise in overall demand for health insurance has allowed insurance companies to...
On Monday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's "universal" health-care plan was shot down by a committee in the state's Senate, 7-1. The most vociferous opponents were not fiscal conservatives, but labor unions that...
Protests for representative government and human rights in Egypt have given way to thuggery and lawlessness, suggests David Ignatius in an opinion essay for the Washington Post. He compares “soccer thugs” roaming Egypt’s streets, defying authority, to the aggressive youth gangs in the 1962 novel A...
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The G20 meeting of the world’s major economies concluded in Seoul without a serious plan for coordinating macroeconomic policies. Since the first G20 meeting in November 2008, global leaders have recognized that inconsistent, poorly coordinated policies spurred the global economic crisis along....
Lights, camera, smile: President Obama and China's President Hu Jintao at the G-20 meeting in deep disagreement over imbalances
NEW HAVEN: When they first met in November of 2008, the G20 leaders were right on target when they admitted that...
WASHINGTON : Il y a un souci croissant au sein du Congrès américain sur le dossier nucléaire conclu l’été dernier lors de la visite du Premier Ministre indien Manmohan Singh à Washington. Ce n’est pas tant que la...
: A US senator convinced US technology firms to agree on an internet freedom code of conduct. But companies like Google, Yahoo! And Microsoft have not made great strides in China while Chinese internet firms flourish. The number of internet users in China now exceeds the US total. “If they...
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