How Juarez became the murder capital of the world.

How sex scandals have made Silvio Berlusconi even more powerful in Italy.

A year after dozens died protesting his election and hundreds more were imprisoned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grants a rare interview to an American journalist.

Pat Robertson was 29 years old, possessionless, and living in a Bed-Stuy brownstone when he announced that God had told him to buy a fledgling TV station in Virginia. Here’s what happened next.

Refugees arriving in the U.S. after receiving asylum face challenges that have led some to return to their war-torn homelands.

Frank Rich on The Promise, Jonathan Alter’s book about the first year of the Obama administration.

Sandinista, reverend, and president of the U.N. General Assembly.

Is Mike Huckabee the GOP’s best hope in 2012? Mike Huckabee’s not so sure.

Carl Malamud is on a quest to change the way average citizens can interface with the government – by scanning its paperwork and making it available free online. And he’s financing his effort with his own credit cards.

The founding fathers deserve at least some of the blame for the worst presidencies in American history—they created an office that’s vaguely defined and ripe for abuse. Plus: how to fix it.

The head of the Social Security Administration’s secret life as a respected poet.

What’s really happening in Kyrgyzstan.

Playing beer pong with David Axelrod—and other scenes from the lives of young, high-profile aides in the Obama White House.

China is securing sub-Saharan Africa’s natural resources at a staggering rate. With the buying spree comes contracts, workers, and of course, politics. (Part 1 of a 6 part series, rest here)

According to Lou Dobbs, we’re wrong about his stance on illegal immigrants, wrong about why he quit CNN, and wrong about his presidential aspirations. Well, we might actually be right about that last thing.