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Syria: Inside Bashar Assad’s Dungeons
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Switzerland: New Laws Proposed for Legal Prostitution
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen: NATO’s New Boss
Denmark is not exactly a global power center, but the former leader of the small, tidy nation is about to become a major player on the world’s diplomatic stage.
Two Cheers for 2011: Expectations in Politics, the Economy
2010 was a tough year, not just for Barack Obama, not just for America, but for the West.
Priest Sex-Abuse Case in Archdiocese of Benedict’s Adviser
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Power Shifts
As Americans wrestle with the implications of revolutions in the Middle East as well as the rise of China in Asia, we need a better understanding of what it means to have power in world politics. Traditionally, the mark of a great power was its ability to prevail in war.
A Former Guantanamo Inmate Remembers Osama bin Laden
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Interview with Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton
TIME: A Secretary of State and a superstar are kind of an unlikely couple. What brought you two together?
Oil Back Above to $113 on Weaker Dollar
Oil prices climbed back to near $113 a barrel Friday as a weaker dollar made crude more attractive to investors with other currencies and the conflicts in Libya and Syria raised risk premiums. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for June delivery was up 40 cents at $113.26 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange