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Right-wing group pressures Republicans to oppose any effort to impose tariffs on countries that manipulate currency in order to achieve economic dominance.
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Of the top fifteen men's players in the world, seven of them are Egyptian, and the women's side is not far behind.
The history of our nation has many rich and vibrant hues—some of them red.
After the demise of climate legislation, environment groups are going local—and confrontational.
The Nature Conservancy has acknowledged the oil leak in the Gulf, but failed to mention BP. Could it be because the Conservancy has close ties to the oil company? Johann Hari reports on the relationship between conservation groups and corporate cash.
The versatile vocalist Mable John, now a novelist and minister, has come a long way since the 1960s soul era that made her (almost) famous.
Community members and outside organizations are working together to rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward.
Democrats are poised to seize a historic opportunity to win back voters in the South and West they started losing four decades ago.
If the corruption of Karzai's government is Afghanistan's new cancer,
then the Taliban are increasingly seen as chemotherapy: an unpleasant
but necessary remedy.
Jared Nayfack was 11 years old and living in the heart of conservative Orange County, California, when he told his best friend from school that he was gay--"and my friend then came out to me," sa
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This article explores the impact of television hostess Oprah Winfrey's television show "Oprah's Book Club" on the U.S. literary culture. "Oprah's Book Club" is not dissimilar to the kind of secret or surprise divulged in a number of the novels that were her book club picks. The club was never discussed as the rich cultural phenomenon that it really was, but rather, as is typical of so much contemporary cultural commentary, almost exclusively in terms of commerce. In fairness, each and every one of Winfrey's forty-eight selections over the past six years became a bestseller, and in an industry in which only a few novels sell more than 30,000 copies, the fact that those recommended by Winfrey routinely sold a million or more secures the club's status as an undeniable economic marvel. The use of a far-reaching television program, "The Oprah Winfrey Show" charts a domestic audience of an estimated 26 million viewers per week, plus a foreign distribution in 106 countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, as a deliberate means to such a flourishing literary end was unheard of before Winfrey.
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