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The author reflects on the action of U.S. State Secretary and former ambassador to Panama, Rex Tillerson who shoved out American Foreign Service Association president Barbara Stephenson of the room in a joint appearance. The author believes that U.S. Foreign Service officers are not sure how to defend American values under President Donald Trump, whom he claimed has shown contempt for the Constitution. The author also claims that general cannot save Americans either.

Comments the quality of life in the past in the United States. Mass media; Family relations; Health; Entertainment industry.

The article highlights the important contributions of U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke to international security, particularly in ending the Boasnian war in 1995, and into the advancement of the notion that the U.S. can remake, redeem, and rescue.

The article offers information on the socialism as the major issue in the upcoming 2020 elections in U.S. including the information on the spending of French tax revenue on the health care and unemployment benefits.

An editorial is presented which argues against the belief of U.S. President Donald Trump that judges should serve as agents of those who appoint them, the way he blurs the line between truth and falsehood, and his sympathies with global autocrats rather than with democratic leaders.

The article offers information on international cooperation in businesses focusing on the shift of people from one place to another and how the political and economic situation of U.S. under president Donald Trump has changed from education system to undocumented immigrant to employment.

The article comments on some of the social and political changes occurred in the U.S. since President Donald Trump took office, including the anti-Muslim racism and a tax cut.

The article reflects views of the author related to the lack of national unity in the U.S. and mentions the rise in disunity after the 9/11 attacks and mentions the diverse talents fusing under pressure due to the disunity prevailing in the country.

The author discusses the political campaign of 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump where he mentioned various challenges and problems faced by the country along with his approach to solve such problems.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's views on the current political affairs in the U.S. in February 2016.

The article focuses on the opposition of Republicans in the U.S. to the country's nuclear deal with Iran.

The author reflects on the statement of U.S. Representative Sander M. Levin about the importance of considering facts and saying one's opinion and examines its implications to the country's political culture and its nuclear weapon control deal with Iran.

Looks at the expectations of foreign countries from the U.S. government. Suggestion by Europe for the possibility for the U.S. to recapture its moral leadership; Desire of China for the U.S. administration to have a vision and play a leading role in globalization and international trade; Demand from Africa for a change in philosophy from America.

Focuses on the proposed withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Factors making security policies difficult to create; Number of American troops needed for a major counter offensive; Impact of the issues related to the war in Iraq on the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

Reports on the impact of the Madrid railroad bombing on the foreign relations between Europe and the U.S. Call for the establishment of European central intelligence agency; Vulnerability of the Europeans to the terrorist attacks; Sources of global instability.

Focuses on the capture of Saddam Hussein. Analysis of the American occupation in Iraq; Estrangement in Iraq; Assessment of violence and insecurity.

The author reflects on the views of France regarding the actions of the U.S. under President Barack Obama in the Middle East, including Iran, Syria and Afghanistan, which are perceived to be uncertain and do not align with its national interest.

The article reports on the issue of gun control in the aftermath of the Connecticut school mass shooting which will test Barack Obama's second term as president of the U.S. It notes that school shooting in Newtown is considered as a political failure and a failure of American will which is personified by the president. It cites that the issue of Obama's push for gun control centers on the Second Amendment which reads that the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

The author reflects on the economic situation and financial crisis in the U.S. He considers the shift in the politics of energy and oil as the main reason for the financial crisis in the country. He cites technological developments in the oil and natural gas industry concerning the geostrategic shift such as the increase of oil production from deepweater offshore operations, and advent of natural gas and shale oil production. He also suggests ways for the U.S. to be energy independent.

The article focuses on the U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice who likes to reopen the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. According to Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Rice is a woman who has strong ideas, navigating an effective course of areas of the policy of Africa. It says that Rice joins the U.S. President Barrack Obama in his first campaigns. It mentions that she has been the object of Republican attacks over her interview in the Benghazi television on September 16, 2012.

The author reflects on the online humiliation and computer crimes in United States. He says that even government personnel commits crime using Internet such as the Florida socialite who received harassing emails from U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. He mentions that national security is the only way to avoid cybercrimes.

The article reports that the U.S. needs to talk to Iran to resolve its armed conflict. Former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela William Luers states that diplomacy is an urgent need for Iran's resurrection. The article also discusses the intervention of U.S. President Barack Obama on the conflict, the quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace, and the U.S. interest in Afghanistan.

The author reflects on the move of the U.S. into the 21st century when it comes to sexual mores, which is the message delivered as Republican candidate Mitt Romney was rejected and U.S. President Barack Obama was re-elected. The author relates the defeat of Democratic candidate John Kerry in 2004 as Republicans managed to use gay marriage ballot initiatives. He adds that the shift of the majority of Latinos to vote for Obama is another message delivered to the Republican Party (GOP).

The author reflects on the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama from his victory in the 2008 election to 2012. He states that Obama is a man more likely than not to make smart decisions. He mentions that Obama has strived to make the U.S. more inclusive by allowing LGBTs to serve openly in the military and by signing legislation to back equal pay for equal work for women. He notes that the U.S. has come a long way from the abyss of 2008.

The author discusses the impact of gender divide on voting in the 2012 U.S. presidential elections as most women prefer incumbent Barack Obama while most men favor challenger Mitt Romney. He states that Obama has gained the confidence of women for empowering their rights to labor supply and abortion. The author mentions that men have been discouraged at how Obama has been unable to improve the economy.

The article discusses the presidential choices of the Jews in Cuyahoga County, Ohio for the elections in the U.S. in 2012. It mentions the willingness of presidential candidate Barack Obama to defend Israel with the threatening nuclear annihilation. It also notes the political campaign conducted by former United Nations ambassador John Bolton for the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney.

The article discusses the author's views on the radical change in the U.S. foreign policy which now supports the Islamist extremists group called the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He cites the ultraconservative Salafist politicians that have become regular visitors to the U.S. Embassy. The author thinks that the U.S. tried Middle Eastern repression to achieve stability, but it only got a terrorism-breeding society of frustrated Arabs under tyrants.

Paris AUGUST was once a time for dreaming, wandering the empty streets of this city, reading silly-season newspaper stories after a leisurely lunch washed down with Sancerre, gazing at squares where fountains plashed and the pregnant or the old chatted on benches at dusk. Then something happened. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For almost two months now, the chattering classes in London, Paris, New York and the Hamptons have struggled to talk about anything but D.S.K. The old animalistic elements have exerted their magnetism: power, sex, violence and race. The 20 minutes from 12:06 to 12:26 in suite 2806 of the Sofitel New York have become the object of a thousand theories and a French-American bust-up. Yes, there's talk of a U.S. default and Greece is a bottomless pit, but those 1,200 seconds spent together on May 14 by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a Guinean housekeeper trump every geostrategic lurch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BAYDA, Libya I descended 55 steps into the labyrinth of Muammar el-Qaddafi's mind. The glow of cellphones and a feeble flashlight lit a passage into the darkness. A netherworld unfolded -- bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, even saunas -- linked by tunnels with six-inch-thick metal doors agape at their mouths. No expense had been spared on this lair. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Berlin I've always had a soft spot for Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the guy with the wrong name and the wrong background who took on the smug talkers with names like Dominique de Villepin and vanquished them. He was the outsider from the wrong schools who believed in energy and talent and had the audacity to smash the taboo that said a French politician can't love America and prosper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

GUARDIANS OF THE REVOLUTION Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Of all the questions Barack Obama needs to ask right now, the most important should be addressed to the Secret Service: how the heck did Muntader al-Zaidi got his second shoe off? Al-Zaidi, of course, is the Iraqi television journalist who expressed his rage at the U.S. occupation of his country by hurling first one shoe, then the other, at President George W. Bush in Baghdad. He's now in detention. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I used to live in Miami and fly Pan Am to South America to cover this and that: the fall of Pinochet, uprisings in Argentina, one gazillion percent inflation in Brazil. Lest we forget, things really have gotten better in the Americas. But it's Pan Am, rather than the state of the Western Hemisphere, that's been on my mind. The first time I went down to Rio in 1986, I flew business class. I was working for The Wall Street Journal. When I got back, I handed my expenses to Eric Morgenthaler, then the bureau chief in Miami. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The United States and Iran are talking to each other about the elimination of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction. That is a good thing. On the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, it shows there is nothing in the DNA of the two nations that precludes dialogue. The discussions - often bruising but never to the point of a breakup - are proceeding within the framework of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. That's an unwieldy name for something the world should cheer. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Of the many issues that have soured relations between Europe and the United States under the Bush administration, few have been as poisonous as America's refusal to join the world's first permanent war crimes court here. The snub has been seen as a symbol of U.S. contempt for the rule of law. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for many things right now, despite the stock market, and first among them is the fact that the next U.S. commander in chief is a constitutional law expert and former law professor. Before I get to why, allow me to add two other reasons for thankfulness. The first is that Barack Obama is a man of sufficient self-confidence to entrust the critical job of secretary of state to his former rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. She has the strength and focus to produce results. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Beyond Iraq, beyond the economy, beyond health care, there was something even more fundamental at stake in this U.S. election won by Barack Obama: the self-respect of the American people. For almost eight years, Americans have seen words stripped of meaning, lives sacrificed to confront nonexistent Iraqi weapons and other existences ravaged by serial incompetence on an epic scale. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Of the countless words Barack Obama has uttered since he opened his campaign for president on an icy Illinois morning in February 2007, a handful have kept reverberating in my mind: ''For as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on earth is my story even possible.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I was talking to a banker friend, and he told me the ''unraveling'' could go on for ages. I thought he meant the unwinding of all the leverage that had inflated everything from the price of stocks to the price of homes. But, just to be sure, I asked him: ''Unraveling of what?'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Until he retired from the State Department earlier this year, Nicholas Burns was, as under secretary of state for political affairs, the lead U.S. negotiator on Iran. And how many times, during his three years in this role, did he meet with an Iranian? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What is it with plumbers, anyway? Before Joe the Plumber, the latest celebrity of the U.S. presidential campaign, we had the Polish plumber, star of the 2005 French referendum that sent a much-heralded European Union constitution into the toilet. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I never imagined that a Republican mayor from Bible-belt Missouri would revive my faith in American democracy, but Raeanne Presley did just that. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I did what John McCain has suggested he might not be prepared to do. I sat down with the Spanish prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, and talked to him for an hour. I'm pleased to report that I and several New York Times colleagues survived. National security between the United States and our NATO ally was not, to my knowledge, compromised. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In 1970, in the midst of the longest bear market since World War II, President Richard Nixon declared: ''Frankly, if I had any money, I'd be buying stocks right now.'' The market soared. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sarah Palin loves the world ''exceptional.'' At a rally in Nevada the other day, the Republican vice-presidential candidate said: ''We are an exceptional nation.'' Then she declared: ''America is an exceptional country.'' In case anyone missed that, she added: ''You are all exceptional Americans.'' I have to hand it to Palin, she may be onto something in her batty way: the election is very much about American exceptionalism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

World leaders converge on a battered New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly and my advice to them is: think Damien Hirst. It's not that I expect them to dwell on the British artist's giant tanks of dead sharks and piglets at a time when the U.S. economy is being socialized to the tune of $700 billion ($2,000 for every man, woman and child in the country) as a result of a giant mortgage-related Ponzi scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]