My advice to Sarah Palin, not that she would take it, is that she’d better be careful. If she keeps pretending to run for the presidential nomination, people might…
This isn’t the first visit Manuel Zelaya has made to Honduras since a 2009 coup toppled his presidency and he was exiled, but he may be able to stick around this time. Zelaya cut a…
An investigative video created by The Guardian examines alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Manning’s psychological condition before he was dispatched to Iraq, concluding that he was probably not…
The Medicare “reform” proposal of Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, encountered some setbacks this week. Also, leaders of the Group of 8 meeting in France pledged nearly…
Is Snoop Dogg the new Joe Camel? Is Ronald McDonald? What about Facebook—has that website become synonymous with an infamous tobacco industry cartoon that preyed on…
The United States is evacuating “certain non-emergency personnel” from Yemen and encouraging other Americans to leave the country while they still can. The state department cites…
It is not true, as a Wall Street Journal reviewer claimed, that the HBO movie version of Andrew Sorkin’s book “Too Big to Fail” was “Too Boring to Watch.” On the…
By Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico
What do a professed love for women, a so-called commitment to family values, a culture of social change and institutionalized rape have in common?
What an action-packed week it was—how will “Left, Right & Center” regulars Robert Scheer, Matt Miller and Tony Blankley and guest panelist Chrystia Freeland possibly cover it all in 30…
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Speaking at a historic dinner in the castle that once headquartered Ireland’s British overseers, Queen Elizabeth II expressed regret over the two islands’ violent history: “To all those…
At the time of the reported incident on Saturday, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was resident in a $3,000-a-night luxury suite at a posh Midtown Manhattan hotel. I didn’t think this was…
The health insurance industry is raking in profits on the backs of consumers who are increasingly forgoing medical care due to economic concerns, though that hasn’t stopped big insurers…
Now nearly three decades old, David Osborne’s 1984 MoJo profile of Newt Gingrich remains the definitive portrait of the future Speaker of the House as a young man. The article revealed sides of Gingrich that continue to dog him to this day: the reports of infidelity, the now-infamous story of his hospital-room visit with his first wife, and a mile-long trail of aggrieved colleagues. As his firstex-wife later put it, Mother Jones “scooped the world on Newt Gingrich.” Newt was equally blunt; the article, he said, was “one of the saddest things in my public career.” We dusted off a copy for you; check it out.
On Friday, a pair of suicide bombings killed more than 80 Frontier Corps trainees who were celebrating at a graduation party in Shabqadar in northwestern Pakistan. The Taliban claimed…
He’s been in charge since just before the 9/11 attacks, and if President Obama gets his way, FBI Director Robert Mueller will stay at his post for another two years—an unusual move aimed…
According to this AP report on the still-slim Republican pickings for the 2012 election, there are some politico types out there who actually believe that Campaign 2008 got started too…
A cadre of right-wing institutions that peddle themselves as counterterrorism specialists and experts on the Muslim world has been indoctrinating thousands of police,…
Now Playing: Hear Raphael Saddiq’s latest album, “Stone Rollin” in its entirety before the release date on May 10.
The House’s passage of H.R. 3 is aimed at stripping American women of the ability to make decisions about their own pregnancies. Above, Rep. Chris Smith,…
By Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News
Although it achieved a tentative peaceful unity among rival Palestinians, an agreement reached in Cairo on Wednesday between the leaders of two competing groups—Fatah and Hamas—did not…
When bin Laden turned against us, he morphed into a figure of evil incarnate, and now three decades after we first decided to use him and other imported Muslim zealots…
Al-Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvaz, 39, has gone missing after landing in Damascus on Friday to cover the events in Syria, the news agency says. Dozens of journalists are reported to…
Starting this week, the talk in our nation’s capital will be dominated by whether or not Congress should raise the debt ceiling—as if we have any choice but to pay off our…
By Peter Broelman, Cagle Cartoons, Australia