U.S. Elections

Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic

2013-05-15 15:14:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....

Pakistanis vote in landmark election

2013-05-11 19:52:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistanis braved threats from militants and voted Saturday in national elections that marked the country's first democratic transfer of governance and appeared to put former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on track for...

Pakistan bombing again targets Islamist party

2013-05-07 15:20:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second day in a row, a bomb blast killed and maimed participants at a campaign rally being held by one of Pakistan's Islamist religious parties, indicating a broadening of targets in the violence that has primarily...

Winners and losers in Venezuela's presidential election

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Venezuela's National Electoral Council declared Nicolas Maduro, the handpicked successor of the late President Hugo Chavez, the winner in the presidential election Sunday. But it was a victory in a compromised system that tilted the table in his favor....

McManus: Gridlock, Tehran-style

2013-02-27 00:00:00

With the United States locked in confrontation with Iran, was it good or bad for diplomacy that "Argo," a movie about U.S. spies getting the best of the Iranians, won this year's Academy Award for best picture? Depends on whom you ask. To Iran's...

The pope is Catholic, but our ambassador doesn't have to be

2013-01-08 12:30:00

John L. Allen Jr., the go-to guy in journalism for insights about the Vatican, has an interesting article in the National Catholic Reporter about the Obama administration’s vexed attempt to name a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican now that the post...

Israeli threats about Iran -- crying wolf or laying groundwork?

2012-08-17 05:03:31

Afghan commission sets presidential election for April 2014

2012-10-31 13:12:57

Goldberg: A vote for election day

2012-10-23 00:00:00

I'm writing this before Monday night's presidential debate, on the assumption that neither candidate changed the dynamic of the race too dramatically. But what if one did? What if Barack Obama announced in a fit of pique that "America doesn't deserve a...

Central issues of Election 2012

2012-10-11 18:18:00

Whoever wins the presidential election in November will confront urgent problems: Should tax cuts scheduled to expire be renewed? Should federal spending be cut to reduce the deficit or would that weaken an already lackluster economy? After one of the...

Poor go unheard in presidential race

2012-10-16 20:22:00

Telana Starks was watching her niece play in a sandbox Monday afternoon in Lafayette Park when I asked if she was following the presidential campaign. She said she hadn't really been paying any attention, which was interesting because the candidates...

Pakistanis expect ties with U.S. to remain tense after Obama win

2012-11-07 07:42:23

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney shake hands at the conclusion of the final presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida October 22, 2012. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

2012-11-06 19:16:00

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama speak directly to each other during the second U.S. presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y.

2012-10-17 04:42:00

In London, a man buys a copy of the Evening Standard newspaper from a vendor whose booth is covered with advertisements for reports on the U.S. presidential election.

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