News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
The current presidential transition in Washington is the first during wartime since 1968, when President Lyndon Johnson handed the reins of power to President Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War. That is particularly significant at the Defense...
News Source: Charlotte Observer Online
| about 1 year ago
For two centuries that mirror has seemed irreparably cracked by the legacy of slavery and segregation, a pernicious and enduring racism that remains a factor in the blighted lives of so many of the poor blacks among whom Mr. Obama launched his...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
The celebration of Barack Obama's election to the US presidency has died down and now the president-elect and his team begin to face the many choices that confront them as they prepare to assume office in January. As VOA's Greg Flakus reports from...
News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
Editorial Think of all the seismic events to have shaken the world in the past eight years. Two wars launched, but neither over; a climate incrementally and alarmingly hotter; the worst financial crash in a century; treaties torn up; torture...