American automaker GM announced a surprise decision not to sell its German division, Opel. We examine perspectives on the reversal from the countries that stood to benefit from the deal.
A group dubbed the 'Birthers' is raising questions about Obama's true citizenship, saying he is Kenyan. But do they have a case? And why is the media furthering the debate?
U.S. President Barack Obama met with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders during the U.N. General Assembly in New York. The media focus on how successful the peace talks could ensue.
Iraq Violence Raises Questions About U.S. Strategy
A large-scale bombing in Baghdad has raised questions about whether the U.S. is becoming distracted from its mission in Iraq, and whether the troop withdrawal can go as planned.
Conservative media are once again attacking an Obama administration czar, Kevin Jennings. News outlets examine if the criticisms are entirely political.
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) withheld her support for healthcare debate until Louisiana got $300 million in taxpayer money for Medicaid. Do Senate votes go to the highest bidder?
A small faction of the 52 conservative and moderate democrats in Congress known as Blue Dogs have caused healthcare reform to stall, providing fodder for divergent opinions on just what the schism in the Democratic party means.
Critics of health care reform complain Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has made too many concessions to the bill, leading some to question whether the result will be worth passing.
Republican Scott Brown beat Democrat Martha Coakley for the late Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat. How did Coakley lose in one of the nation's bluest states?
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn attacked FOX News as a "a wing of the Republican Party." News media questioned if it was the right tactic.
As the Senate heads toward its Christmas Eve vote on the health care reform bill, many are looking back at the deals struck to reach a 60-vote majority.
After his only challenger withdrew from the Afghan poll runoff, Hamid Karzai is elected as the country's president for another term. The victory prompts a new sets of questions on the U.S. policy toward Afghanistan.
Jean Sarkozy, son of French Premier Nicholas Sarkozy, is slated to take a plush bureaucratic post his father once held. The media are debating nepotism versus natural ability.
Radovan Karadzic’s trial began this week in The Hague, reawakening controversy on the 1995 Balkan violence. We’re tracking coverage from Serbia and around the world.
U.S. President Barack Obama will address Congress Wednesday on the health care reform initiative. Many say the speech will play a major role in him regaining public trust on the issue.
The decision is in. After months of meetings and debate, President Barack Obama declared in a speech Tuesday he would be deploying 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and starting pulling troops out of the region in 2011.
