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The full text of President Barack Obama's speech, "A Moment of Opportunity," as prepared for delivery at the US Department of State, May 19, 2011.

In the wake of national scrutiny over the rape of an 11-year-old girl, African-Americans in Cleveland espoused the same moral exceptions that white Southerners used to excuse lynching.

The catastrophes in Japan remain that country’s tragedy, so we need to keep our own anxieties here in the US in check—or harness them to make constructive changes in preparation for our own future disasters.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

On the home front of the war on terror, we are largely fighting ghosts and phantasms, some helpfully conjured up by the government itself.

Russians will not be safe until there is a political and economic solution to the decades-long war and occupation of Chechnya and the surrounding regions.

Its airports shut, Thailand is now ungovernable, as an educated elite attempts to overthrow the populist government it couldn't defeat at the ballot box.

Young voters could be the key to victory for Obama and Democratic Congressional candidates. Here's how they're changing the electoral map.

Once geopolitical lines are redrawn, the question must be answered: who started this war?

The future of the Republican brand rests in the text message happy hands of young America--which should scare the living daylights out of John McCain.