No one ever got rich betting on the demise of Hugo Chvez. As a leftist Venezuelan paratrooper officer, he led a failed coup in 1992, but he was let out of prison just two years later and started campaigning for the presidency, which he won in 1998.
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Republican Debate: Why So Little Discussion of Wars?
At 10 past 8 Monday evening, Michele Bachmann decided to separate herself from the six guys next to her on the stage by telling John King of CNN why she had come to St.
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.
‘Decision Points’: What George W. Bush’s Memoir Reveals
Early on in his newly released memoir, George W. Bush writes with great credibility, and a welcome absence of histrionics, about his slow-motion turn toward faith
From the Top Down, Sloughing Off Blame for the Spill
President Barack Obama does not like to get angry. His equanimity is his pride, and he rarely uses the bully pulpit of the Presidency for explicit criticism.
Mohamed ElBaradei: The Next President of Egypt?
Egyptian activists, most of them young, were out in force in the midday sun on Friday, Feb.
Lessons Of A Bad Heart
From time to time, I have felt Dick Cheney’s pain. We are both about the same age–I am some months older–and we both had our first heart attacks in our mid-30s
Health-Care Reform: Senate Bill Turns to Harry Reid
Now that the last of the five congressional committees with jurisdiction over health care, Max Baucus’ Senate Finance Committee, has passed its much anticipated reform bill, it falls to majority leader Harry Reid to cobble together something that can pass the Senate. That is no easy feat
Zakaria: Nobel rewards Obama’s ‘big, bold gambit’
President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a stunning decision that comes just eight months into his presidency. NEW YORK (CNN) — President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a stunning decision that comes just eight months into his presidency.
Borger: Republicans don’t really want to work with Obama
In my next life, I’d like to be an opposition party leader.