U.S. military officials have announced phase two of a plan to transition security duties away from U.S.-led Coalition forces to newly trained Afghan troops by 2014. After
As Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have continued across the nation for yet another week, a Google Trends analysis of online search patterns indicates that interest is higher in this more
Zócalo Public Square, a project of the Center for Social Cohesion from Arizona State University, in partnership with the New America Foundation, recently hosted a discussion about Arizona politics. Chief
The president and CEO of the U.S. Rice Federation, Betsy Ward, is confident that eliminating trade barriers with Cuba would create “the largest market for U.S. grown rice
The coalescing of disaffected middle Americans looks different in 2011 than the coalescing of disadvantaged Americans in the 1960s. In that era, the civil rights, anti-war and free speech
As Occupy Wall Street supporters seek to gain more traction for their movement to challenge the nation's biggest financial institutions, a new Gallup survey finds that Americans are
Libya's Prime Minister declared yesterday that Sirte, the hometown of Moammar Gadhafi, was liberated by rebel forces. The Libyan rebel government's National Transitional Council (NTC) is
More than a few seasoned financial observers say Bank of America is in desperate financial shape and its problems are worsening. Its acquisition of Countrywide was disastrous and left them
A long-awaited trio of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) were passed by both congressional chambers last week in a bipartisan effort to open up duty-free export channels to Colombia,
The Solar Energy Industries Association has just rained on California's renewable energy photo voltaic (PV) parade with the distressing news (PDF) that New Jersey's commercial PV
What’s wrong with Mitt Romney? The former Republican governor of Massachusetts has been winning his party’s debates hands down in the eyes of most critics, and he leads
Occupy Wall Street, the nationwide protest movement inspired by the ongoing demonstration in downtown Manhattan, invites comparison with the Tea Party movement, which took the nation by storm in early
