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President Barack Obama has the upper hand in the fierce struggle over immigration now taking shape, with a veto pen ready to kill any Republican move to reverse his executive ...

The Richland, WA, school district is phasing out swings on its playgrounds due to safety concerns. Ah yes, ...

Is the Obama presidency over? This has been the burning question on the lips of many Washington DC ...

When looking at large-scale international studies and comparisons of education systems worldwide, everyone’s always talking about Finland. Finland ...

The lingering recession caught up with adult schools in 2012. The California state legislature changed its way of ...

Taken at face value, David Cameron’s warning this week about risks in the global economy sounds like it ...

Norwegian writer Mette Newth once wrote that: “censorship has followed the free expressions of men and women like ...

"Feet first." That's how one terrorist leader told recruits was the only way out. It makes sense. Allowing ...

I am a resident of Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Recently, I received a letter from an oddly named ...

The question of what went wrong after 1945 to spark the Cold War has long occupied and divided ...

After Iran’s Islamic revolution of 1978-79, periods of tension between Washington and Moscow have generally been synonymous with ...

Economic trends will provide a very important part of the context in which President Obama’s policies play out ...

As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gazes across Damascus from his palace on Mount Qasioun, he can be grateful ...

On October 1, 2014, a group of Middle East Institute (MEI) scholars met to discuss the issue of ...

After the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre in which 33 died, the National Rifle Association supported a federal law ...

Here's just a quick montage of the fan meetup we held in Hong Kong.

One hundred and sixty-eight years ago this past July, two British warships—HMS Erebus and HMS Terror—sailed north into ...

Canada's federal deficit is projected to finally be eliminated next year. With a surplus now expected for 2015-16 ...

Democratic New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo’s defeat of Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino in the general ...

It's become a cliché to say that out of crisis comes opportunity. But there's no denying that when ...

Everyone Has an Opinion In the US, midterm elections are a strange event.  It is usually when the ...

As Iran and the United States negotiate with the aim of reaching a diplomatic nuclear settlement by November ...

Focusing on growth, the Brisbane G-20 leaders' summit has not grappled with three key issues. How much more ...

China Uncensored interviews former Tiananmen student leader Mr. Zhou Fengsuo at the Umbrella Movement's Admiralty protest site in ...

Because of its power to influence public affairs, the press has long been known as “the Fourth Estate.” ...

On the heels of an electoral drubbing, the president and Republican leaders of the new Congress remain at ...

The Ebola story gets stranger every day as administration officials, the CDC, and President Obama himself stretch logic ...