Politics & Current Affairs

China has announced firm targets for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions two weeks before the Copenhagen summit on climate change.

It seems Americans are no-longer thankful for their President as Obama’s maiden thanks giving speech was met by a barrage of criticism.

The US Navy is training sea lions to assist them with underwater activities such as retrieving explosive mines and even detaining intruder divers.

A couple who gatecrashed a White House state dinner – and boasted about it on Facebook- have sparked an urgent investigation into the US Secret Service’s security procedures.

Greg Sargent calls our attention today to an interview Bush’s former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino gave last night on Fox News’ “Hannity.” In the interview, Perino takes the […]

Maureen Dowd has all the steadiness and heft of a tin weathervane, but like a weathervane she can point which way the wind is blowing in Washington. And her column […]

The death toll of the massacre of journalists and politicians in southern Philippines has hit 52 after investigators discovered another six bodies.

The UK government knew that the Bush administration wanted to tackle Saddam Hussein years before the invasion of Iraq, but knew it was “unlawful.”

As one of my professors used to joke, any field with the word “science” in its name is probably not a science. If you have to explain that what you’re […]

Iranian cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri seems to be emerging as a voice of reason against the Iranian government.

The US Senate has narrowly voted to hold a full debate on a landmark bill designed to overhaul the country’s healthcare.

The social networking site Twitter has taken off this year. According to Alexa it is now the 15th-most widely used site on the web. Its micro-blogging format—users post 140 character […]

For the first time, according to Gallup’s latest tracking poll, less than fifty percent of Americans approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President. That’s down from 60% […]

A law banning gay marriage in Texas has effectively banned all marriage according to the Democratic attorney general candidate.

Detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons are “likely to have been tortured by Afghan officials” a former senior Canadian diplomat has claimed.

Are you an eligible prospective immigrant to the United States? Are you feeling lucky? If so, you have 10 more days to apply for the random selection process conducted annually […]

President Barack Obama needs to take decisive action in Afghanistan and remind the American public why they are fighting the war he inherited from George Bush.

President Obama has admitted that the US government will miss the January 2010 deadline for closing Guantanamo Bay.

In the 1960s, the world seemed on the verge of a global food crisis, as the population grew faster than the food supply. As I wrote last week, thanks largely […]

Big Think conducted a special interview today with George Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente. As the world’s largest nonprofit health plan and hospital system, Kaiser Permanente is a micro-healthcare system unto […]

Senate leader Harry Reid is planning to include a public option so that states can opt out of his version of the healthcare reform bill. But what else could this volatile debate trigger?

The Obama administration is finally getting serious about closing Guantanamo. The main obstacle to closing the military prison has always been that it wasn’t clear where to put the approximately […]

Expectations for the Copenhagen summit next month are dropping like a cartoon anvil. Where once there was talk of a comprehensive international accord on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, now the great […]

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi tried to convert 500 “attractive girls” to Islam in Rome yesterday.

President Obama has ruled out the setting of binding targets for tackling climate change at the Copenhagen summit next month.

Since the Republican Party’s historic defeat in the 2008 elections, American conservatives have been seeking new ideas to rally around, new leaders to point the way forward. One year later, […]

In what was a remarkable turnaround—and a huge victory for progressives—last week, the House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill that includes a provision for a government-run program, […]

A new breed of “super bee” has been bred by government scientists in a bid to tackle the honeybee epidemic.

A staggering third of all homeless men in America are veterans of the army – so where is the post commission support?

In a bid to win US sympathy, China’s government has argued that the “liberation” of Tibet is comparable to the abolition of slavery by Lincoln.