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The crisis was caused by weak governance, excessive speculation and lax regulation. Austerity will only make the disease worse.

The news media these days look to outperform one another in their showings of concern for the lost battalion of America’s unemployed. Consult any newspaper, wander the Internet or the television talk-show circuit, and at the top of the column or the hour the headline is jobs.

What will be the fate of Egypt and the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets in a staggering show of aggressive nonviolence in January and February?

Far from being a monolith, the Ikhwan, as it is known in Arabic, is well scored by demographic and ideological fault lines.

Can the world sustain a country the size of China with an appetite for the good things in life on par with America's?

Alarmist tracts about immigration in Europe are debates about Muslims--not with them.

Blue Dog Democrats are undermining prospects for financial-industry regulation and reform.

The American intelligence community has missed the boat on how quickly the US has fallen from "sole superpower" status.

Can the United States and Iran negotiate an end to the nuclear standoff?

Obama's signature economic reforms are under siege. Without a grassroots challenge to business as usual, we won't get the change we were promised, much less the change we need.