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Global Voices: The six personalities of Russia's Putin

2013-05-23 04:00:00

Vladimir Putin emerged from the obscurity of a secret agent’s life when called to Moscow in 1997 by power-hungry oligarchs in search of a pliable accomplice to plant in the Kremlin. �In little more than two years, Putin was president of Russia and...

Finally, Obama breaks his silence on drones

2013-05-23 00:00:00

Over the last four years, there has been a strange irony. One of the greatest speakers of our era has largely kept silent about one of the signature aspects of his presidency. Under President Obama's leadership, U.S. civilian intelligence agencies...

Iran presidential vote: Who's in? Who's out? Who cares?

2013-05-22 05:00:00

He’s one of two surviving founders of the Islamic Republic, head of the Expediency Council that supervises all branches of government and has already served two terms as Iranian head of state. But the Islamic conservatives who vet presidential...

More poor live in suburbs than in urban areas, research shows

2013-05-19 21:19:00

Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...

Warner Center office park sells for an estimated $80 million

2013-05-16 00:00:00

A vast office park in Warner Center — the white-collar business hub of the San Fernando Valley — has sold for an estimated $80 million to investors who see it as central to an evolving and increasingly dense commercial and residential...

USAID develops a bad reputation among some foreign leaders

2013-05-06 20:00:00

WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It...

Letters: College? Yes!

2013-05-12 00:00:00

Re "College not always cost-effective," Business, May 9 In reporting on the Brookings Institution study, "Should Everyone go to College?," The Times highlights the statistic that "a surprising 14%" of high school graduates earn more than college...

Obama, Mexico leader to avoid hot topics, at least publicly

2013-05-01 18:30:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama will seek to cement relations with Mexico's new president, Enrique Pe�a Nieto, over the next two days with vows of neighborly kinship and future cooperation. But the true test of their ability to work together may be...

McManus: Obama's war on red tape

2013-04-28 00:00:00

Here are three things the Obama administration has done that you probably didn't know about: Ever struggle with those accordion-style rubber sleeves on nozzles at the gas station? The sleeve — technically a "vapor recovery nozzle" — was...

California may go forward without a financial reserve

2013-04-28 16:14:00

SACRAMENTO — Arnold Schwarzenegger persuaded voters nine years ago that if they let him borrow money to cover the budget deficit, California's financial woes would end for good. A key part of his plan was a new rainy-day fund to insulate the state...

McManus: A tax everyone can love

2013-04-21 00:00:00

The chairmen of Congress' primary tax committees, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), have launched a bipartisan effort to reform our messy, inefficient federal tax law. They've agreed to look for ways to lower tax rates on both...

Europe austerity strategy is hurting growth, IMF says

2013-04-19 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Britain and the Eurozone are steadfastly sticking to austerity measures despite increasing evidence that such action alone isn't working to revive their economies and is dragging down global growth. Such persistence, analysts said,...

Alice Rivlin, a distinguished budget expert at the Brookings Institution, in 2011, flanked by former Sens. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Pete Domenici (R-N.M

2011-11-01 00:00:00