Think Tanks

The Week Ahead: Iran and Pakistan on the stump, Mubarak on trial

2013-05-06 05:00:00

D-Day for Iranian presidential race Tuesday, May 7 -- So many candidates, so few promising real change. More than a dozen Iranian lawmakers, former Cabinet ministers, revolutionary guardsmen and allies of Islamic leaders have thrown in their hats...

Rich liberal donors throw weight behind Obama agenda

2013-05-04 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — An influential network of some of the country's wealthiest liberal political donors is steering resources to an advocacy group backing President Obama's agenda and to organizations working to pass immigration reform, providing a surge...

Immigration bill would be largest such effort ever attempted

2013-04-15 21:00:00

WASHINGTON — After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of eight senators is poised to offer a sweeping bill to rewrite the nation's immigration laws this week, taking advantage of a changed political alignment that, for the first time in...

Mexico government downplays deadly violence

2013-04-11 00:00:00

MEXICO CITY — The new government of Mexican President Enrique Pe�a Nieto has sought to downplay the deadly violence that has long haunted much of Mexico and that he repeatedly pledged to reduce. But the country's killers aren't cooperating....

Toll lanes bring more delays for drivers who don't pay

2013-04-10 10:28:00

Last year, carpool lanes on a portion of the 110 Freeway were converted to toll lanes. Preliminary data show average travel speeds have increased in the lanes formerly reserved for carpoolers, but traffic has slowed on the rest of the freeway. So for...

Ex-Treasury Secretary Geithner's new job: fellow at N.Y. think tank

2013-02-06 07:38:00

WASHINGTON -- It didn't take long for former Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to land a new job, and it's not on Wall Street -- though it's in the same area code. The Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank based in New York, said...

Looking ahead in Venezuela

2012-12-16 00:00:00

When Venezuela President Hugo Chavez announced last weekend that his cancer was back and he was returning to Cuba for surgery, he was flanked by two men: On his left was his vice president, Nicolas Maduro, and on his right was Diosdado Cabello,...

Tea party Sen. Jim DeMint to retire, lead conservative think tank

2012-12-06 08:20:00

WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, one of the most influential leaders of the tea party wing of the party, will retire in January to head a conservative think tank in Washington. DeMint has been a renegade on and off Capitol...

Congo rebels occupy key city of Goma

2012-11-20 11:51:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo seized the eastern city of Goma with ease on Tuesday, raising fears of a new regional war that could leave tens of thousands of people dead. Facing little resistance, the M23...

USC Schwarzenegger Institute kickoff will fuse Hollywood, politics

2012-09-17 14:13:02

Schwarzenegger apologizes for affair on 'The Daily Show'

2012-10-02 07:02:24

North Korea reverses, says it won't accept flood aid from South

2012-09-12 22:04:21

The former California governor and action star gave $20 million in 2012 to help with the formation of a new policy think tank.

2013-05-14 21:31:58

A blanket of haze hangs over the Hong Kong skyline Sunday. A survey released at the end of 2010 by public policy think tank Civic Exchange found one-quarter of residents would like to leave Hong Kong to escape its pollution after levels reached a record high, prompting government warnings to people

2011-04-03 00:00:00

A Chinese man rides his tricycle laden with recyclable styrofoam along a main road in Shanghai.

2010-08-04 00:00:00