Scraping together $40 billion in spending cuts in a country already shaved to the bone is a tall order.
Smoke and Mirrors: Greece’s Day of Reckoning
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All Confused On the Western Front: NATO and Libya’s Rebels Don’t Jibe
“Where is NATO?” the rebel asks, with no small amount of frustration.
Bitter Histories: An Exile from Syria’s Past Chaos Tends to Fresh Exiles
The white-haired, 61-year old exile has come to the hospital to see the refugees from Syria.
Europe’s Gay Leaders: Out at The Top
When Iceland installed Johanna Sigurdardottir as Prime Minister last February, newspapers around the globe printed variations of the same headline: ICELAND APPOINTS WORLD’S FIRST GAY LEADER. Everywhere, that is, except Iceland.
Mitch McConnell: The GOP’s Deal Maker
For the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency, Mitch McConnell never got a phone call from the White House.
Libya’s Gaddafi Has Limited Options: Death, Jail or Exile
Muammar Gaddafi’s options for a peaceful exit may have finally run out. For the second time in seven weeks, South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday failed to persuade the Libyan leader to abandon his 42-year rule
Taliban’s Afghanistan Strategy: First, Take Nuristan
Every morning at 8, Maulawi Zahir heads into Waygal district center, a remote mountain village of stone houses stacked almost vertically up granite slopes.
Did Obama’s Speech Give Syria’s Assad a Breather?
The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat used to be called “the great survivor.” Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad may be succeeding to the title. Many observers had expected Barack Obama to use a much-anticipated speech on the Middle East to call for Assad to step down, much as Washington has demanded that Muammar Gaddafi relinquish power in Libya.
POLITICS: Campaign Teardrops
Aside from trying out for the Olympic decathlon, there may be no more enervating enterprise in the U.S.
Who’s Behind Egypt’s Sectarian Violence?
19-year-old Rojeh Reda says he hasn’t slept much the past five days. Cairo University literature student and Shakespeare buff says he and his two friends have made it their mission to patrol and monitor the streets of his neighborhood, Imbaba, a poor working-class district in Cairo