The beef war is over. And nobody is the winner.

Supporters of the climate bill passed by the House and the similar bill under consideration in the Senate — including President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders — say that the cap-and-trade approach would guarantee greenhouse-gas reductions.

Two decades after the collapse of communism, Central European states have undergone an unprecedented metamorphosis from command to market economies that experts say was never guaranteed to succeed.

Despite all the Obama administration's chin- rubbing and hand- wringing about how to proceed in Afghanistan, the president hasn't been to the war-torn country since entering the White House.

Local reporters surely must have covered the gay pride parade in Taipei yesterday, which attracted some 18,000 participants last year.

After a U.S. senator was shot on Fox's drama “24” this year, another character blurted out the make and model of the assassin's submachine gun.

As a founder of Human Rights Watch, Robert L. Bernstein is a distinguished moral voice. So he stunned the human rights community last week when he leveled a devastating attack on the work of the organization he chaired for two decades.

Twenty years after the Berlin Wall fell, now unified Germany has a far bigger footprint on the world stage, demonstrating an assertiveness that was unthinkable for most of the post-Nazi period.

Describing the human rights situation in North Korea as “dismal,” a U.N. report outlined abuses in the communist country where people were deprived of essential freedoms “from the right to feed themselves to the right to be rid of fear, to the right of free expression.”

The government wants financial companies, not taxpayers, to pay the tab for too-big-to-fail firms that run into trouble. As good as that sounds, it may not work.