Durbin pushes reforms to help capture fugitives
America's faltering program for apprehending international fugitives got some badly needed attention Monday when Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin announced a series of measures aimed at capturing the growing...
View ArticleReview: "To Move the World" by Jeffrey D. Sachs
As director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, Jeffrey Sachs has devoted his considerable intellect and energy to global development. It...
View ArticleKirk, Duckworth promote treaty on rights of disabled
WASHINGTON — Speaking today on behalf of his "fellow broken people," Sen. Mark Kirk, who suffered a stroke in 2012, urged the Senate to ratify a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled....
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Climate change: Momentum for a deal
by Jim Tankersley COPENHAGEN -- A flurry of draft proposals for new international climate agreements hit international negotiators today, bringing with them what many delegates and environmentalists...
View ArticleObama accepts Nobel, seeks 'just peace'
Read a full text of the president's Nobel Lecture below the fold. See the president's speech here and read the full report from Oslo, updated at the conclusion at 8:20 am EST. (Also see, below the...
View ArticleClimate change, U.S.: 'A deal to be done'
by Jim Tankersley COPENHAGEN -- With strident appeals for action and sharp rebukes of their critics, diplomats from around the world launched a two-week negotiating summit in the Danish capital today,...
View ArticleObama delays Copenhagen, raises stakes
by Jim Tankersley and updated 4:50 pm EST President Barack Obama will push back his visit to the international climate change treaty negotiations in Copenhagen from the first week of the conference to...
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Webliography: Why Ron Paul is not a serious candidate for president
A major impediment to hunting fugitives who flee across U.S. borders is America's patchwork of more than 100 extradition treaties with foreign governments. Many of those agreements are arcane,...
View ArticleDurbin pushes reforms to help capture fugitives
America's faltering program for apprehending international fugitives got some badly needed attention Monday when Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin announced a series of measures aimed at capturing the growing...
View ArticleReview: "To Move the World" by Jeffrey D. Sachs
As director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, Jeffrey Sachs has devoted his considerable intellect and energy to global development. It...
View ArticleKirk, Duckworth promote treaty on rights of disabled
WASHINGTON — Speaking today on behalf of his "fellow broken people," Sen. Mark Kirk, who suffered a stroke in 2012, urged the Senate to ratify a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled....
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