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Chasing the Taliban How to take on the Taliban [March 8]? The real question should be, Why are we fighting the Taliban? If we are victorious, then what? There is no concrete government in Afghanistan, and when there was, corruption was the rule, not the exception. We cannot afford to...
Your article notes that Europeans have learned that the force of arms rarely settles political disputes for long. But it does not note that Europe spreads beyond E.U. borders. The Council of Europe encompasses some 800 million citizens, unified by a vision of human rights. Call it soft power if...
It takes time for so many countries with so much history - and past conflict - to be able to speak with one foreign policy voice. Perhaps they never will. But one thing is certain: Europeans have learned that to live together peacefully, many points of view need to co-exist. That...
It might be tempting to dismiss Galaxy Zoo as just an amusing diversion - fun in an I-play-a-scientist-on-TV kind of way. But astronomers - and volunteers - have made real discoveries by mining its crowd-sourced data. Among them: red spiral galaxies (most spirals are blue), green peas...
The problem with this solution is that some benefits start to expire April 5. And as the country learned the last time these provisions ran out last month during Bunning's filibuster, that means thousands of Transportation Department workers getting laid off, gaps in unemployment and health coverage for some...