The Secret US War in Pakistan
Jeremy Scahill : BlackwaterInside sources reveal that the firm works with the US military in Karachi to plan targeted assassinations and drone bombings, among other sensitive counterterrorism operations.
Pakistan
US / Japan
ROGER COHEN
Obama's Japan Headache
Japan is growing restive with U.S. tutelage as misunderstandings between the two countries multiply. It’s time for everyone to take a deep breath.
US Economy
PAUL KRUGMAN
Bernanke’s Unfinished Mission
Sustained high unemployment is a recipe for immense human suffering. The Federal Reserve must start lending a hand to job creation.
USA
Editorials
President Obama in Oslo
President Obama’s eloquent speech accepting the Peace Prize was the one he needed to give, but we suspect not precisely the one the Nobel committee wanted to hear.
CommentsAn Illegal Immigration Patchwork
The Obama administration should urge the Supreme Court to weigh in against the improper splintering of national immigration policy.
Easing Congress’s Heel on the Capital City
It’s time for the Senate to reverse Washington’s role as Congress’s pocket colony and restore vital home-rule initiatives.
The Season So Far
An enormous portion of the country has been scraped and glazed and numbed by several storms, with nature setting limits we must obey.
Afghanistan -- Behind the Debate
Op-Ed Contributors
A Deadline We Can Believe In?
Three experts share their opinions on President Obama’s announcement that troop withdrawals from Afghanistan will begin in 18 months.
Mongolia
Pastoralism Unraveling in Mongolia
By SARAH J. WACHTER
These are hard times for Mongolia’s cashmere industry, caught in a vicious circle of expanding goat herds, falling wool prices and environmental destruction.
"It's Capitalism, Stupid": Coperhagen and the Rigging of the System
'The Independent'
Leaders of the rich world are enacting a giant fraud
Johann Hari: Corporate lobbyists can pressure or bribe governments to rig the system in their favour.
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