Twenty years ago, amidst the Republican landslide that flipped the control of Congress and sent a Democratic presidency careening into a ditch, the lesser-reported story was the shakeup at the top of state governments.
MILAN – Action to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions and mitigate climate change has long been viewed as fundamentally opposed to economic growth. Indeed, the fragility of the global economic recovery is often cited as a justification to delay such action.
As I bid farewell to my mail-in ballot, it dawns on me: If this election is anything like the past, some 10,000 Californians will mail their choices the same day as the actual vote, thus arriving too late to be counted.
After casting his ballot in Chicago a full 16 days before the election, President Obama said “I’m so glad I can vote early here.” He then held up a flyer and admonished “early vote, everybody.” The president thus declared himself an enthusiastic supporter of the early voting craze that is sweeping the nation.
The end of the Age of Obama. It began with high hopes on a winter’s night in Iowa in 2008 and ended in disappointment on a crisp fall day nearly seven years later.
Introduced as the world’s most renowned diplomat Tuesday at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel, Henry Kissinger was the highlight of this year’s Toronto Global Forum. In a sit-down interview with CNN host Fareed Zakaria, Kissinger touched on some of the world’s most pressing foreign policy issues, and how the dynamics of world politics have changed since his time as U.S. secretary of state in the 1970s.
SAN JOSE -- The balance of power at City Hall will be up for grabs Tuesday as union-backed candidates for mayor and City Council seek to retake the reins and turn away from the fiscal and pension reform agenda of outgoing Mayor Chuck Reed.
