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With the killing of Awlaki, the president of the United States became judge, jury and executioner for American citizens.

America’s covert warfare—a bizarre form of unconscious wish fulfillment—warrants Scahill’s unembedded, dogged, independent reporting.

In the coming decades, two converging nightmares are likely to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition and conflict.

Decades of Jewish settlement and Arab dispossession have radically changed the demographic makeup of this Palestinian capital.

Despite a surprising showing by opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, Chavismo lives on. But can Nicolás Maduro hold it together?

What used to be called "shell shock" is now the daily stress of living in a war zone.

The US has managed to turn a post-communist, enemy-less world into a hive of imminent threat.

Clark discusses the work of UNDP, the launch of the 2013 Human Development Report in Mexico, the Millennium Development Goals and the many challenges that the UN will face in the future.

It wasn't pretty.