Washington Week: Focus on Syria, Immigration Reform President Barack Obama attends the G-8 forum days after the United States announced it will provide military aid to Syrian rebels. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said, We have steadily...
Washington Week: Focus on Immigration There is widespread agreement within the United States that the U.S. immigration system is flawed. Senators this week will debate a bill that seeks to comprehensively overhaul that system. The bipartisan bill wou...
Washington Week: Focus on Scandals and Tragedies President Obama traveled Sunday to Moore, Oklahoma to meet with and console residents of the midwestern town devastated by a tornado that killed 24 people and injured more than 200 others. The presiden...
Washington Week: Focus on Burma, US Government Scandals Six months after President Barack Obama visited Rangoon, President Thein Sein reciprocates Monday with a visit to the White House. Last November, Obama hailed democratic reforms in Burma. A dict...
US, S. Korea Summit to Focus on Security, Economic Ties On her six-day visit, President Park Geun-hye will be accompanied by what is billed as the largest-ever South Korean economic delegation to the United States. Among the 51 business leaders: the...
Washington Week: Obama Trip to Mexico Keeps Focus on Immigration Reform President Obama had hoped to go to Mexico touting new gun-control laws that would impede the flow of American firearms to Mexicos notoriously vicious drug cartels. The drug war h...
Pakistani Voters Focus on Struggling Economy Zafar Saeed runs a vocational training center in a low-income neighborhood of the Pakistani capital. For more than a decade, his institution has trained thousands for work in an increasingly difficult econ...
Washington Week: Focus on Immigration, Gun Control Months of negotiations between a group of Democratic and Republican senators have yielded a bipartisan immigration reform bill, expected to be unveiled later this week. Reports say the proposal would...
Washington Week: Focus on Government Funding, Gun Violence In coming days, the U.S. Senate is expected to pass a spending bill for the remainder of the current fiscal year. Total funding will be at reduced levels mandated by automatic budget cuts. On...
Washington Week: Focus on Austerity America is bracing for across-the-board federal spending cuts, known as a sequester, that will automatically begin Friday. They will slow our economy. They will eliminate good jobs. They will leave many families wh...