Iowa’s presidential-caucus season is off to a slow start, so Governor Terry Branstad let slip a blazing 100-decibel hog call when he announced that many Republican voters in his state were still up for grabs. “It’s a wide-open race,” he said.
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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.
Barack Obama’s Spiritual Journey
Two days after I won the democratic nomination in my U.S. Senate race, I received an email from a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical School
CIA Expulsion Suggests Pakistan is Breaking With the U.S.
Pakistan has asked the CIA to all but shut down its operations in that country, demanding that the U.S. intelligence agency pull out 335 officers and contractors currently based there
Nurse Practitioners’ Role in Expanded Health Care
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The Moment
It is either sublime or ridiculous that one of the most important tools available to Iranians protesting the June 12 presidential election is Twitter.
How Silvio Berlusconi Uses Women on TV
Standing in their uniform miniskirts and stilettos, three young women bend over ironing boards, pressing men’s shirts before a live studio audience.
Beneath Lebanon’s New Political Deal, a Fear of Violence
It’s been an almost endless summer in Lebanon, with beach weather and relative political harmony continuing well into November.
Female writer says Letterman show had ‘hostile work environment’
The persistent sexual politics behind the scenes at late-night talk shows is far from a joke, believes former “Late Night with David Letterman” writer Nell Scovell. Under the international agreement between Washington, D.C
GOP needs power player to end ‘warlord status,’ expert says
The 1994 elections were approaching, and House Republicans were on a mission to take control of their chamber for the first time in nearly 50 years. Buoyed by an electorate skeptical of then-President Clinton after his unsuccessful push for health care reform, Republicans charged forward with what experts say they are lacking now: a clear message and a leader