RTTPP draft: United States reasserts its role as a world's schoolyard bullyRTWhile the contents of the proposed trade agreement are certainly interesting, not to say very alarming, it's even more interesting to see how the United States keeps asserting its industry interests over the world under the false flag of “free trade ...
NPRForget The 50 States; The US Is Really 11 Nations, Author SaysNPRFor hundreds of years, this nation has been known as the United States of America. But according to author and journalist Colin Woodard, the country is neither united, nor made up of 50 states. Woodward has studied American voting patterns ...
Major League SoccerReport: Tab Ramos gets new deal as United States U-20 national team coachMajor League SoccerAccording to a report Saturday from ESPN, Ramos has been signed to a new, four-year contract that will see him both stay on as the U-20 coach and take up the role of U.S. Soccer's youth technical director. He will replace Claudio Reyna in the latter ...
NBCNews.com (blog)US hijacker returns from Cuba after nearly 30 years to face chargesNBCNews.com (blog)An American who almost 30 years ago hijacked a plane and forced it to fly to Cuba was taken into FBI custody after he returned to the United States on Wednesday to face federal charges. William Potts hid a handgun in a plaster cast when he boarded a ...
Aljazeera.comUS elects new governors and mayorsAljazeera.comThe off-year vote in several US states and cities will be scrutinised for clues to the mood of Americans ahead of next year's congressional elections - especially with a pragmatic conservative Republican, Christie, prevailing in New Jersey, while a ...
Foreign Policy (blog)Global Push to Rein in US Moves from Spying to GitmoForeign Policy (blog)More than 12 years after the United States launched its global war on terrorism, testing the outer limits of international law, many of America's allies are seeking to turn back the clock to a time when targeted killings, clandestine prisons, and ...
Slate MagazineIf Sweden Is a Welfare State, Why Does It Have So Many Billionaires?Slate MagazineBut Stefan Persson, the chairman, main shareholder, and former longtime CEO of H&M, leads a roster of Swedish billionaires who outpace the U.S. (No. 14) on a per capita basis. In part this is just a bit of a funny coincidence—it's a fairly small ...