Fight Fire With a Cease-Fire

Until last Saturday, Israel acted with impressive level-headedness. Israel must not lose perspective now, in the heat of battle, and should stand down for 48 hours.

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The Latest Warning on Inauguration Gridlock

You've been warned.

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Israel in Gaza: Irrationality

It is not rational to believe that the Palestinians in the occupied territories will be terrorized by force and violence, by cruelty, by starvation or by slaughter into a docile acceptance of the Israeli occupation.

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Gaza:Obama Should Engage Now for Middle East Peace

The Gaza crisis is so severe that it demands the president-elect speak up for diplomacy.More than 300 Palestinians has being killed, including 12 children, more than 1,000 are seriously wounded. Peace organizations, including Jewish ones in the US and Israel are calling for an end of Israel's actions.Obama needs to get involved right now.

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Israel Mounts Third Day of Gaza Raids

JERUSALEM, Dec. 29 -- Israel continued pounding targets in the Gaza Strip with airstrikes on Monday, and Hamas-backed militants fired a new volley of rockets at the Israeli towns of Ashkelon and Sderot as the current round of hostilities entered a third day.

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No Early End Seen to ‘All-Out War’ on Hamas in G

Israel struck at the organization’s civic institutions, with no active diplomacy and protesters taking to the streets around the Arab world.

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Daniel Levy: What's Next on Gaza/Israel and Why Americans Sh

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Israeli Troops Mass Along Border; Arab Anger Rises

With the death toll in Gaza rising to nearly 300, a furious reaction spread across the Arab world, raising fears of greater instability in the region.

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Israeli Troops Mass Along Border; Arab Anger Rises

With the death toll in Gaza rising to nearly 300, a furious reaction spread across the Arab world, raising fears of greater instability in the region.

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Israel Poised for Long Fight

JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 -- Israeli warplanes struck a broad array of targets in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Sunday, hitting a security compound, a mosque, the Islamic University, a television station and a network of smugglers' tunnels along the border with Egypt as Hamas fired fresh volleys of rocket...

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Win, Win, Win, Win, Win ...with a

We have got to stop “taking off the table” the gasoline tax, the tool that would add leverage to everything we want to do at home & abroad. It’s a blessing for those who've been hammered by the economy are getting a break at the pump. But for our long-term health, getting re-addicted to oil & gas guzzlers is one of the dumbest things we could do.

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Win, Win, Win, Win, Win ...with a

We have got to stop “taking off the table” the gasoline tax, the tool that would add leverage to everything we want to do at home & abroad. It’s a blessing for those who've been hammered by the economy are getting a break at the pump. But for our long-term health, getting re-addicted to oil & gas guzzlers is one of the dumbest things we could do.

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Israelis Strikes Against Hamas Prelude To World War III

Israeli officials say the Gaza airstrikes, which killed more than 225, and wounded 600 on Saturday were the start of a final push to destroy Hamas' defenses. This follows the time-honored formula of engineering financial and economic collapse, famine, and wars to lend credit and sell weapons to all sides as the Rothschilds have done for 250 years.

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Lincoln Mitchell: Achieving the Impossible-Expectations for

We have no way of really knowing what issues will dominate Obama's presidency... Achieving all of his goals will be almost impossible. Achieving even one or two of them would be an extraordinary accomplishment.

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Time to Reboot America

We don’t just need a bailout in this country, we need a national makeover. That is why the next few months are among the most important in U.S. history.

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Time to Reboot America

We don’t just need a bailout in this country, we need a national makeover. That is why the next few months are among the most important in U.S. history.

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Hillary Moves to Expand Role of State Deptartment

As she prepares to helm the State Department, Hillary Rodham Clinton is seeking a bigger budget and an expanded role in dealing with global economic issues.

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Time Cover Sure Looks a Lot Like a Campaign Image

The cover illustration was produced by Shepard Fairey, the street artist who created the prominent “Hope” image of the presidential candidate last winter.

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Canada Agrees to Its Own Auto Bailout

The governments of Canada and its Ontario province offered the industry 4 billion Canadian dollars in emergency loans.

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Bush Aids Detroit, but Hard Choices Wait for Obama

A $13.4 billion loan to General Motors and Chrysler may be followed by $4 billion more if the Obama administration finds sufficient progress.

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U.N. Convicts Former Military Officer in Rwandan Genocide

ARUSHA, Tanzania, Dec. 18 -- A former Rwandan army colonel was convicted Thursday of genocide and crimes against humanity for masterminding the killings of 800,000 people in a 100-day slaughter in 1994. Survivors in Rwanda welcomed the watershed moment in a long search for justice.

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Slate Magazine - The Green House

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The Caucus: Obama Calls for National Day of Service

Barack Obama is calling for a national day of service to take place on Jan. 19, the federal holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and the day preceding Mr. Obama’s inauguration.

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One More Round of Voting, as Electors Do Their Duty

The Electoral College cemented Barack Obama’s victory, in a year when new figures showed that voter turnout reached its highest level since 1968.

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Can Africa Trade Its Way to Peace?

If undertaken with enough will and persistence, an American-led mediation to create a common market in East Africa could end the war and transform the region.

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Majority of Public Opposes Auto Rescue

Most Americans continue to oppose a government-backed rescue plan for Detroit's Big Three automakers as majorities blame the industry for its own problems and are unconvinced failure would hurt the economy, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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The GlaxoSmithKline and Gates Foundation Malaria Vaccine

A candidate vaccine against malaria is a tribute to the power of charitable contributions to generate and sustain industrial interest.

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Jimmy Carter: Obama's Human Rights Opportunity.

How to Restore Moral Authority? The advancement of human rights around the world was a cornerstone of foreign policy and U.S. leadership for decades, until the attacks on our country on Sept. 11, 2001. Since then, while Americans continue to espouse freedom and democracy, our government's abusive practices have undermined struggles for freedom in

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Jimmy Carter: Obama's Human Rights Opportunity.

How to Restore Moral Authority? The advancement of human rights around the world was a cornerstone of foreign policy and U.S. leadership for decades, until the attacks on our country on Sept. 11, 2001. Since then, while Americans continue to espouse freedom and democracy, our government's abusive practices have undermined struggles for freedom in

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‘Meet the Press’ Changes, and Hopes Its Rank Won

As David Gregory assumes the leadership of “Meet the Press,” NBC’s competitors have the chance to alter the dynamics of Sunday morning talk.

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Obama Offers First Look at Massive Plan To Create Jobs

On the heels of more grim unemployment news, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday offered the first glimpse of what would be the largest public works program since President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the federal interstate system in the 1950s.

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The Real Generation X

To reverse the damage caused by this generation of greedy adults, we will not only need to bail out industries of the past but to build up industries of the future.

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Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale

Seeking to resuscitate the reeling economy, Barack Obama promised the largest public works program since the creation of the interstate highways.

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Canadian Leader Shuts Parliament

Prime Minister Stephen Harper shut down Parliament until Jan. 26, seeking to forestall a no-confidence vote.

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U.A.W. Makes Concessions in Bid to Help Automakers

The surprise by the United Automobile Workers to accept concessions could be critical in helping the industry secure $34 billion in federal LOANS. But Congress and the American people, dumb as a bag of hammers, still do not understand the repercussions for the entire wolrd economy that a bankruptcy for any of these would cause. Mypoic Americans.

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U.A.W. Makes Concessions in Bid to Help Automakers

The surprise by the United Automobile Workers to accept concessions could be critical in helping the industry secure $34 billion in federal LOANS. But Congress and the American people, dumb as a bag of hammers, still do not understand the repercussions for the entire wolrd economy that a bankruptcy for any of these would cause. Mypoic Americans.

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Queen Noor of Jordan: Hillary Clinton -- A Champion for Huma

Hillary Clinton will be a strong, effective Secretary of State in the new Obama administration.

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Bill Gates Urges Obama to Increase Spending

The world's richest technology entrepreneur -- and leading philanthropist -- came to Washington yesterday with a simple message for President-elect Barack Obama: Increase spending.

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A smart power cabinet

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The Hope for Audacity

Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University and the author of Letters to a Young Activist and

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Continuity We Can Believe In

Barack Obama and his team should put into action a foreign policy doctrine that builds on some of the ideas developed during George W. Bush’s term.

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Obama Introduces Clinton, National Security Team

President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as defense secretary, making President Bush's Pentagon chief his own as he seeks to wind down the U.S. role in Iraq. Obama picked former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.

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Cecile Richards: Sen. Clinton Champions Women's Health World

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Obama Poised to Name Hillary Clinton to State Post

Chicago, Dec. 1 -- President-elect Barack Obama today will formally announce a national security team that is led by his one-time chief Democratic rival and includes a top member of President Bush's cabinet -- a daring gamble on an eclectic group of personalities to confront a turbulent world.

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The evolution of the Obama-Clinton connection

When Sen. Hillary Clinton joins President-elect Barack Obama in Chicago today for the rollout of his foreign policy team, with her as Secretary of State, it will mark the latest evolution in a fast-changing relationship that began just four years ago, when she was the junior senator from New York and former first lady and he was an Illinois senator

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