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How a confrontation is shaping up between the US/NATO and the BRICS.

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The coming big storms facing our planet can only be tackled by strong governments.

Impoverished by NAFTA, residents of Veracruz crossed the border to work in Smithfield’s Tar Heel slaughterhouse. Now, they're condemned as “illegals.”

Hopes for reform in Burma are starting to be fulfilled, but skepticism of its rulers is still warranted.

As the secretary of state makes a historic trip to the southeast Asian nation, what is at stake?

The European Union exists in a no-man’s-land between democracy and technocracy.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner opens up on Occupy Wall Street, the United Nations and prospects for serious social reform.

The Chamber of Commerce and its Republican allies have launched “the Contract With America on steroids.”