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War College: Why is this 60-year-old U.S. warplane still flying?
North Korea sets off a nuclear bomb and how does the U.S. respond? The Pentagon sends a 65-year-old airplane to buzz Korean airspace.
Will scandals simply overwhelm Hillary Clinton?
Hillary Clinton has survived, in good part because she just plain barreled through the scandals with stunning resolve.
Oil flirting with the $20s gives OPEC cause to cut
That bleak outlook for oil is gaining traction among analysts. Such bearish predictions may prove correct unless bickering OPEC puts aside its differences and agrees to deep cuts. But for that to happen, Russia and other producers outside the cartel will have to play ball.
Has Obama really changed America?
A 'transformational president means not only enacting new policies but framing the public debate and winning the ideological argument. Obama hasn't done this.
Five steps Obama can take before leaving office to stave off climate disaster
Recent science is finding that impacts and economic costs from climate change are certain to increase, but the worst of these impacts can be avoided if President Barack Obama takes a series of specific actions in his final year in office.
Bowie’s financial legacy is actually Hunky Dory
The rock legend’s 1997 catalogue securitisation prompted a host of securities backed by unusual assets. Music industry-specific issues meant Bowie’s own bonds were later downgraded. But despite a global financial crisis, the wider field of esoteric ABS has a genuine future.
The West is losing the battle for the heart of Europe
A little over a quarter of a century ago, Europe celebrated the healing of the schism that Communism enforced on it since World War Two, and which produced great tribunes of freedom.
In North Korea, kids learn to love the bomb – and Minnie Mouse
North Korea is the most mysterious and oppressive regime on earth. Few journalists penetrate Pyongyang and fewer still stay long enough to understand the country and its people.
Why even a failed test makes North Korea’s nuclear arsenal scarier
Nuclear weapon tests are no longer a commonplace occurrence, so it’s always a little shocking when it happens. It may even be shocking to the country that conducts it – most recently, North Korea.MOST COMMENTED
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