January 20, 2009
Two million Americans are expected to gather in Washington to celebrate the inauguration of the country’s first black president. President-elect Barack Obama will take office at 1700 GMT following two days of inaugural celebrations. He becomes the 44th U.S president, taking the place of outgo...
go to article »January 13, 2009
A U.S. Navy commander will lead a new international force to battle pirates off the coast of Somalia, officials said Thursday, according reports from Associated Press. More than 20 nations are expected to take part in the mission once it is fully under way later this month. The announcement Thursday...
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The challenge Barack Obama faces is being compared with that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the 1933 depression and of Abraham Lincoln at the start of the civil war. Another analogy suggests itself, with Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika. Then, in 1985, the USSR was at war, its economy sta...
go to article »January 8, 2009
With the bloody fighting in Gaza, emotions are running high in the region, and around the world. The ghastly images we see on the news evoke a wide range of emotions: sympathy, empathy, regret, guilt, remorse, and yes, anger. All this is understandable. And yet we sense that strong passions and unbr...
go to article »December 15, 2008
December 4, 2008
Until it hit the headlines after the Mumbai attacks, India did not tend to receive much attention in the international press - at least not as much attention as China, Asia's other major rising power. Even with the Olympics over, China has been the subject of innumerable recent news stories and ...
go to article »December 3, 2008
It appears that MSNBC may have finally made their much-anticipated decision as to who will succeed the late Tim Russert as the next host of Meet the Press: the most watched Sunday talk show in America and the longest-running television show in broadcast history. In an article posted Monday, The Huf...
go to article »November 28, 2008
Elizabeth, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco, writes about celebrating Thanksgiving so far from home. ...
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