On Friday President Obama will address the nation about the NSA's controversial surveillance programs. He is expected to announce some substantive ...

Imagine if the federal government mandated that a portion of all federal gas taxes go directly to the oil industry’s trade association, the America...

From around Aleppo in western Syria to small areas of Falluja in central Iraq, al Qaeda now controls territory that stretches more than 400 miles a...

Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University and a professor of political science, said Christie’s association with Jones raise...

“President Obama has a lot of work to do getting his party ready for 2016,” Princeton University political historian Julian Zelizer said. “The ques...

This U.S. military presence in Afghanistan doesn't have to be a large, nor does it need to play a combat role, but U.S. troops should remain in Afg...

“The debate isn’t just about L.B.J., but about how American politics works,” said Professor Zelizer, who teaches history at Princeton. “Is it a mat...

While it’s no secret that negative Afghan public opinion swirls around civilian deaths from raids — rightfully so — Karzai’s antipathy toward raids...

The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a future...

Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm where all the decisions about ...

Yet, in Yemen where the U.S. has been fighting a small, undeclared war for the past four years, we have now arrived at the ironic point where Ameri...

A women’s revolution has begun in Saudi Arabia, although it may not be immediately evident. This fall, only a few dozen women got behind the wheel ...

When Chris Renshaw told his co-workers that he was planning to take six weeks of paternity leave, they responded with overwhelming support. “It’s d...

"At least we don’t have office parties in strip clubs any more,” mused a college friend of mine over a recent end-of-year lunch. She entered a bank...

Female breadwinning is a reliably inflammatory topic. Earlier this year, when the Pew Research Center published a study showing that mothers are no...

But is there any real reason to think that Americans are no safer than was the case a couple of years back? Not according to a study by the New Ame...

We're all familiar with the concepts of "soft power" and "hard power" in international relations, but there's a new kind of power afoot, at least a...

On May 23, President Barack Obama gave a major speech at the National Defense University in Washington stating his intention to recalibrate his cou...

In August, al Qaeda's propaganda arm released a video starring the German rapper Deso Dogg.

It's an industry that's largely invisible to consumers, yet central to feeding the world's sweet tooth. Cocoa processing -- the process of turning ...

Roaming the candy aisle of my neighborhood Safeway around Halloween is a dizzying encounter with choice. Towering stacks of sumptuous sweets gliste...

A year ago, Hurricane Sandy revealed harrowing realities about the basic systems New Yorkers rely on every day. We now know, for example, what happ...