President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are launching two days of high-stakes meetings expressing confidence that they can make progress. Obama...

For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...

President Obama promised a break from the old Washington ways of permanent campaigning and a president unaccountable to the people. Put aside the lack of...

The Obama administration is playing a game of semantics in describing the military coup in Honduras against leftist President Zelaya. Whether one endorses the coup or...

As Iran stumbles deeper into political crisis, with scores of protestors murdered and likely more deaths coming after Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami declared them...

President Barack Obama claimed that America will not be retaining any permanent bases in Iraq. This was meant to be a sign to Iraqis and the broader Arab world that the...

President Obama on Monday strongly condemned the ouster of Honduras’s president as an illegal coup that set a “terrible precedent” for the region, as the...

President Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 [along with the Civil Rights Act] was one of the most courageous and honorable acts in American...

Eco Factor: Limousines powered by biofuel produced from plant waste. The world’s most important climate change conference will see the likes of Gordon Brown and...

In recent days, the world has seen simple folk in Iran risking their lives in order to gain freedom. They are standing there unarmed, only equipped with their...

A poll sponsored by the right-wing Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post reports that only 6% of the Israeli public consider American President Barack Obama to be...

For all the right-wing hysteria about President Obama being a socialist, the president is actually quite a centrist and even a corporatist. Depending on one’s...

Filed under: Sex, Video Who says health-care reform can’t be sexy? The American blogger, filmmaker and erotic photographer Lee Stranahan has produced the most...

While President Obama has chosen a deliberately measured response to the contested Iranian election, European leaders have been far less restrained in their comments....

It is time to finally achieve universal health insurance in America. The first president to try was Franklin Roosevelt, but the American Medical Association [AMA], the...

Barack Obama got a basketball, his first name and ambition from his father. Little else. The son gave back more than he received: a lifetime of ruminations about the...

For over a year, John (not his real name) has been a colleague of mine at work. Five days in a week, we meet every morning. Usually, I will be in front of the...

Barack Obama and Joe Biden head to the Midwest today. The Chinese Gitmo detainees are heading to paradise. No, they’re not winging to heaven to enjoy the company of...

US President Barack Obama has exhorted his countrymen to buckle up as the Indians and Chinese are catching them fast, as Americans have now settled into...

Pat Robertson, a former Republican Presidential candidate, has always been an ultra-Conservative. He supported the late Ronald Reagan and bashed Jimmy Carter. He...