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Unsurprisingly, life outside of Iraq does not appear to be easy for these new-comers. The last three countries listed—Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon—do not allow incoming Iraqis to work, nor were the countries a part of the 1951 Refugee Convention allowed for the UNHCR...
Coming off a heady week of endorsements from heavyweights in the Christian Right world, including Bob Jones III and Don Wilton, former president of the South Carolina Southern Baptist Convention, Mitt Romney technically won the straw poll with 1,585 of the total 5,576 votes cast. But it was...
The original version of this story incorrectly implied that Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention was at the Values Voters Summit on the morning of Mike Huckabee's speech. Dr. Land spoke at the Summit the day before and left that night.
As the presidential primaries approach, those puzzled about politics may no longer have an excuse to avoid the polls. A blog, VoteGopher.com, founded by a Harvard student aims to provide “real information for real people” and to encourage young Americans to participate in the democratic...
In 1940, after two straight losses to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Republicans turned to someone who was barely in their party. Utility executive Wendell Willkie had been a delegate to the 1924 Democratic Convention. But he criticized F.D.R.'s Tennessee Valley Authority as being a power grab by the Federal...