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Betrayal is at the heart of U.S. politics
Deal making may be the way the United States has to be governed, but it will always carry the risk of betrayal.
Should a small Texas court set immigration law for the nation?
Throughout the United States, millions of undocumented immigrants with American children live in fear of being deported -- despite a federal program that could shield them.
America’s secret weapon
Government funding for our world-class research institutions produces the new technologies that American entrepreneurs take to market.
When will Russia break?
A rock bottom oil price, Western sanctions, inflation, a demographic crisis… when is the Second Russian Revolution? Next year, on the centenary of the first? 1917-2017?
OPEC freeze failure could hasten oil’s recovery
Producers failed to agree a deal to freeze supply at a meeting in Doha. The failure was largely due to Saudi Arabia’s refusal to allow Iran to be exempted from an agreement. Prices will drop initially, but if OPEC disintegrates the stalemate could hasten crude’s recovery.
Who was pulling the strings when Ukraine unraveled?
When Ukraine pulled itself apart in 2014, the world was confused over who was doing the pulling.
GOP nomination process 101: Candidates’ remedial edition
Trump says the GOP primaries are too complex. He should look at the party's past presidential election rules. Now, that was complicated
A dirty – not particularly funny – poem just turned into an ‘international crisis’
Just when German Chancellor Angela Merkel thought she had checked “Turkey” off her to-do list for solving Europe’s refugee crisis, a filth-laden poem read by a late-night comic is presenting her with a new dilemma.
Why computers may never replace human spies
If legendary British spy-turned-KGB mole Kim Philby was alive to offer arrested U.S. Navy officer Edward Lin advice -- regardless of his guilt or innocence -- we know what it would be.MOST COMMENTED
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