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Yes: Welfare no longer is an entitlement, and work is on the horizon for many recipients. With considerable prodding from the Republican Congress, President Clinton announced at the end of [...]

When Hillary Rodham Clinton invited me to meet with her at the White House on April 26, I was delighted. The First Lady had recently given a speech in which [...]

A politician must become a person again, someone who trusts not only a scientific representation and analysis of the world, but also the world itself. He must believe not only [...]

A fresh round of arrests takes relations with the European Union to a new low 'WE HAVE no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us [...]

Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva supports what some people call social capitalis, which is a cross between social spending and free-market policies. Among Lula's social programs is Fome Zero, or Zero Hunger, a program that includes free meals for elementary school students and family farming initiatives. Lessons from Brazil's reform which can be used for the global economic crisis are analyzed.

President Ne Win's political regime has caused widespread discontent among the Burmese which gave rise to student activists. The economic condition of the country and the pressures from donor countries and creditors are seen as factors for political reform.

Erdogan tries to escape Ataturk's shadow Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems bent on strengthening the influence of Islam 'A NEW Turkey' was the promise of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who became its [...]

Byline: Rob Verger Caracas, Venezuela-A protester in the capital runs to dispose of a gas canister in the ongoing battle between demonstrators and security forces. On Monday, a National Guard [...]

The government is right to reform the 'hukou' system, but it needs to be braver CHINA'S future is now firmly urban. Already around 54% of its people live in cities--and [...]

Those who try to shoot messengers often appear guilty, frustrated and infuriated about getting caught. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to wipe out a social-media site and 'took action [...]

Byline: Rob Verger Caracas, Venezuela-March 5 marked the one-year anniversary of Hugo Chavez's death, and many used the occasion to praise the late president. But thousands of others continued their [...]

Only outsiders can break Venezuela's deadlock IN DECREEING that the Carnival holiday would last an extra two days this year, Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, seemed to have hit on a [...]

This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's proclamation of a 'war on poverty,' and the progress in this theater has not been encouraging: Trillions of dollars [...]

Africa's most-populous country joins the anti-gay brigade GOODLUCK JONATHAN, Nigeria's president, signed a bill on January 13th that criminalises same-sex relationships, arguing that the new law is in line with [...]

Byline: Bethany Horne As two military-style helicopters touch down in a remote village in the jungles of Ecuador, masked men with guns hop out and scurry into a one-room schoolhouse. [...]

A spy casts a shadow on the president WHY were up to ten police patrol cars and dozens of officers providing round-the-clock protection at a house belonging to a convicted [...]

Byline: SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY President Vladimir V. Putin ordered his government to look into buying the archive and Swiss estate of the emigre composer. To view this article at nytimes.com, click [...]

David Cameron in the Tamil north A summit is not the public-relations success the president hoped for 'HAS the circus left town? Can I please return to Colombo now?' asked [...]

A terrible catastrophe in the Philippines also wreaks political and diplomatic damage AS EACH day passes the suffering and devastation wreaked on the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan on November 8th [...]

Nicolás Maduro continues Hugo Chávez's campaign against the media EVERYWHERE he looks nowadays, Nicolás Maduro sees conspiracies. At least a dozen plots to assassinate him have allegedly been detected since [...]