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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a Washington, D.C., law that bans almost all forms of gun ownership. It is the first time since 1939 that the Supreme Court will have weighed in on gun control.
And that is the existential challenge of 2008: whether we will have a big election or a small one. Will we have a serious conversation about the enormous problems confronting the country-the wars, the economic crisis, the looming environmental cataclysm-or will we allow the same old carnival of...
Observers say Fukuda is expected to put forward another nominee later this week or early next week. But some worry that Japan has already lost a lot of international credibility by leaving the position vacant. "The key take-away from all this is that Japan does not deserve to be...
In little-reported remarks just three months after his controversial speech in Germany, the Pope spoke of the challenge posed to Islam by a violent minority within its ranks. "The Muslim world today is finding itself faced with an urgent task. This task is very similar to the one that...
I thought of those measured and forgiving words-the Dalai Lama still prays for his "Chinese brothers and sisters" every morning and urges Tibetans to learn Chinese so they can talk with their new rulers, not fight with them-as reports trickled out of Tibet of freedom demonstrations that have...