Financial Times

... fiscal straitjacket that we could,” said Maya MacGuineas, a Peterson-Pew commissioner and president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

According to the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank, between 1109 and 1734 Pakistanis have been killed in drone strikes since they began in ...

Major losses for the Democrats in November’s mid-term elections are widely expected, with Republicans predicted to recapture at least the House of Representatives. No matter what the final tally is, instant analysis will proclaim that American politics has been transformed by the Tea Party movement. But the instant analysis will be wrong.

The Obama administration’s $60bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia is already being touted a domestic “jobs generator” for Americans. Instead, it should be seen as a strategically savvy deal – and one at the heart of a changed US strategy in the Middle East that seeks to confront Iran through proxies and allies.

“Nobody disputes their right to test the software – but testing without telling people puts their lives at risk,” said Evgeny Morozov, a blogger and ...

President Barack Obama has launched the US midterm campaign season with a series of major economic initiatives. They include plans to fix America’s crumbling infrastructure, to increase and make permanent research and development tax credits, to create new incentives for small business and to extend the Bush tax cuts for the middle class. Each idea has been met by a predictable chorus of predictions that they could not pass in the current US political climate. While the environment is indeed bleak, the economic situation confronting America warrants a different response.

There is much debate over whether the Federal Reserve  should tighten or further ease monetary policy. This dichotomous framing overlooks another possibility, which is whether the Fed should change the mix of its stance, tightening in some areas and further easing in others.

Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister, has said Mr Calderón's “war” was a spur-of-the-moment decision launched at the beginning of the presidency when ...

Neibuhr's somewhat un-American sentiment could serve as a digest of what Peter Beinart recommends in his new book. Picking three phases in the last century ...

Jorge Castañeda, foreign minister in the Fox administration, adds that a more fundamental problem is that electoral laws allow mayors, state governors and ...