Il Pakistan è stato colpito da una catastrofe umanitaria senza precedenti. Più grave dello tsunami del 2004 e del terremoto di Haiti eppure, scriveva ad inizio mese Euronews.net, gli aiuti stentano ad arrivare. Il Pakistan non commuove i donatori era il titolo. La stessa preoccupazione è stata...

First the good news: Bill and Hillary Clinton are intellectually and emotionally fully engaged in global humanitarian aid, often with perfect pitch. (I attended the Bill and Hill show on March 31st at the United Nations Donors Conference on Haiti -- and they ruled the United Nations on that day....

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionately intensity."
-- W.B. Yeats

On Friday, the government moved to seize and temporarily shutter one of the truly heroic banking institutions of this dismal era for Ameri...

Barack Obama may have taken the literary triumphs of "Change We Can Believe In" and the stirringly inspirational, "We are the ones we have been waiting for" and turned both poignant sentiments into sharp daggers pointed right at the heart of the Democratic Party. Once bitten, twice shy.

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A high court in Colombia has voided an accord with the United States that would allow an increased U.S. presence on seven Colombian military bases. The ruling on Tuesday by the Constitutional Court declared the agreement signed by outgoing President Alvaro Uribe unconstitutional because it bypa...

What's the difference between mainstream Republican leaders and the Tea Party extremists that have been winning Republican primaries across the country?

The main difference is the willingness of the Tea Party gang to say what they believe out loud. This, of course, is driving Rep...

It's nonsense to think of the economy heading downward again into a double-dip recession when most Americans never emerged from the first dip. We're still in one long Big Dipper.

More people are out of work today than were last year, counting everyone too discouraged even to look for work. The n...

What synapse snapped in the loofah-scrubbed mind of Bill O'Reilly to take to task one of America's sweethearts, Jennifer Aniston, for her simple statement in support of the possibilities of single motherhood? A statement that, reduced to its basics, acknowledges that women can choose to have bab...