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Time to test Iran

NEW YORK ― Most of the debate about how to address Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear-weapons capacity focuses on two options. The first is to rely on deterrence and live with an Iran that has a small nuclear arsenal or the ability to assemble one with little advance notice. The second is to launch a preventive military strike aimed at destroying critical parts of the Iranian ...

2012-10-22 17:00

If housing comeback is for real, recovery is for real

While political analysts were happily hashing over Mitt Romney's binders of women and what President Barack Obama did or did not say in the Rose Garden about the Benghazi attack, the U.S. Department of Commerce was issuing a report that will have more to do with the president's reelection than anything said during the debate.

2012-10-21 16:11

As presidential polls narrow, tensions rise

WASHINGTON ― Do you smell the desperation? The polls show the race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama has narrowed so tightly there is suddenly talk of a 269-269 tie in the Electoral College.

2012-10-21 16:10

A leader is born in Venezuela

CARACAS ― The election that just gave Hugo Chavez his fourth term as president was about more than who would lead Venezuela. It was also a confrontation between two worldviews ― one that aspires to control society and impose a single way of thinking upon it, and another that is committed to democracy, social justice, and liberty. The former is inspired by the example of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, the latter by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

2012-10-21 16:08

Search for our next world narrows; get used to heat

Last month tied September 2005 for the hottest September on record. The previous record holder was September 2003, according to records that go back 132 years.

2012-10-19 17:51

Libya, Egypt attacks deserve careful response

Four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, mindlessly murdered. The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi burned to the ground. The U.S. Embassy in Cairo attacked and American flags burned as Egyptian riot police stood idle. And all at the hands of Islamist extremists ― coincidentally, or not, on the anniversary of 9/11.

2012-10-19 17:34

Why we still see undecided voters

How can anyone be undecided at this stage of the presidential election? It boggles the mind.

2012-10-19 17:29

Poison-proofing China

STANFORD ― Last January, China’s environmental authorities barely averted the contamination of nearly three million people’s drinking water after a mining company dumped cadmium ― a toxic heavy metal used in the manufacture of batteries, paint, solder, and solar cells ― into the Longjiang River. To stop the contamination from spreading, the local fire department had to add significant quantities of dissolved aluminum chloride, which binds to cadmium and settles on the river bottom. The toxic sediment will eventually be dredged. 

2012-10-19 17:28

What's really fueling California gas prices

When California gasoline prices suddenly spiked upward this month, the state's motorists, media ― and politicians ― characteristically overreacted.

2012-10-18 16:54

Obama evens debate score

Tuesday's debate between President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney was a symbolic confrontation between the corporate boardroom, which operates under one set of rules, and the Oval Office, which operates under quite another.

2012-10-18 16:50

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