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KEYNES The Return of the Master By Robert Skidelsky

Jimmy Carter did for the left what Rush Limbaugh does for the right.

The United States has entered a new energy era, ending a century of rising carbon emissions. As the U.S. delegation prepares for the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, it does so from a surprisingly strong position, one based on a dramatic 9 percent drop in U.S. carbon...

Like so many of his predecessors, President Obama is quickly discovering that persuading Israel to change course is nearly impossible.

Tucker Max thinks that "all women are whores" and that "fat girls aren't real people" -- and those are some of his family-friendlier observations. So why do so many women love him?

The most popular politician in Europe isn't Germany's Angela Merkel, Italy's Silvio Berlusconi or France's Nicolas Sarkozy. It's America's Barack Obama. Europeans love his image and charisma, but they especially love the way his 2008 campaign used the Internet to rewrit...e the rules of American pol...

The recession is "very likely over." At least, that's what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said last week. Great news! But for young adults -- those in the "formative years" between 18 and 25 -- the recession means a lot more than tough times today. ...

American public life is saturated with them. Kennedys. Bushes. Clintons. Powerful individuals connected to one another by blood or by marriage who, deservedly or not, take on that most paradoxical of American labels: dynasty.

BAGHDAD -- The general was coming. His helicopter was landing. The great David Petraeus was nearly here.

Will we at least get a good novel out of this financial crisis?

This summer, a mildewed, cream-colored copy of a 45-year-old novel saved me from a whopping midcareer crisis.

Barack Obama's approval ratings may be sagging at home , but when he arrives at the United Nations next week for the annual General Assembly meeting in New York, the president will be on unmistakably friendly turf.

For many years, a handful of American political leaders -- including the late senator Ted Kennedy and now President Obama -- have been trying to gain passage of comprehensive health care for all Americans. As far back as President Harry S. Truman , they have urged Congress to act on this national...

"No president has ever had that happen," said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Wednesday evening, rising to President Obama's defense after Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) interrupted his speech ...