The New American

Cleric Rafsanjani Criticizes Iran’s Leadership

Influential cleric Hashemi Rafsanjani, addressing tens of thousands of opposition supporters gathered for the traditional Friday prayers in the hall at Teheran University,...

July 18, 2009

Should Taxes Pay for Abortion, Secularism?

Selwyn Duke July 18, 2009

Washington, D.C., would be able to use tax money to fund abortions under a $768 million spending bill passed by the House on...

CBO Warns of Health Reform Cost

Steven J. DuBord July 18, 2009

The Congressional Budget Office on July 16 warned that the Democrats’ healthcare reform bills won’t reduce the federal government’s spending on medical care....

Ricci Testimony Highlighted Last Day of Sotomayor Hearings

Steven Yates July 18, 2009

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday rang down the curtains on Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings at the end of four days of intense...

U.S. Will Resettle Palestinian Refugees from Iraq

July 17, 2009

The U.S. State Department acknowledged on July 7 that it would resettle as many as 1,350 Palestinian refugees from Iraq to various locations...

The Prejudice of Atheists

Selwyn Duke July 17, 2009

Ever since the separation-of-church-and-state ruling in 1947, there has been an ever-intensifying effort to denude our public sphere of religious symbols and sentiments....

National Geographic Defends the Facts of the Apollo 11 Mission

James Heiser July 17, 2009

Neil Armstrong’s famous “small step” at the moon’s Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969 was among the defining moments of an entire...

Drug War Violence Rages in Mexico

Alex Newman July 17, 2009

Violence has exploded in the Mexican state of Michoacan following the arrest of an alleged leader of a powerful drug cartel known as...

John Yoo: President Can Ignore Law

Thomas R. Eddlem July 17, 2009

Bush-era Justice Department Attorney John Yoo is mad that various inspectors general have concluded that his legal memoranda on Bush-era warrantless eavesdropping have...

Hillary Clinton Lets CFR Cat Out of the Bag

John F. McManus July 17, 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not yet a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. After her July 15 speech at the...

CBO to Congress: Spending & Debt “Unsustainable”

Thomas R. Eddlem July 17, 2009

Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas W. Elmendorf gave a fiscal wake-up call to Senate Budget Committee members in testimony on July 16, noting...

Obama Weighing Homeowner Bailout Proposal

Thomas R. Eddlem July 17, 2009

“U.S. officials are weighing a plan to let borrowers who have fallen behind on mortgage payments avoid eviction by renting their home instead,”...

In Honduras, Micheletti Offers “Peace and Tranquility”

July 16, 2009

Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti, who was installed as president of the Central American country by the nation's Congress on June 28, told reporters...