By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and JIM HEINTZ -- The Associated Press MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev, who resigned as Soviet president 20 years ago Sunday, ha...
AP | By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 10.17.2011 | World
MOSCOW -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized the government on Wednesday for taking Russia backward and said that the nation needs free...
AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MOSCOW — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday described Russia as an imitation of democracy and accused its current rulers of concei...
Eric Lurio | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
The next regime to go is Algeria. You may ask, "How do you know this? Didn't the police there just beat the crap out of the demonstrators a day or two...
R.W. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
In this era of democratic capitulation, does it really come as a surprise that selective memory rules the memorializing of Ronald Reagan?
Jimmy Demers | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
I live in a city where much emphasis is placed on where you are and how you got there. We too often forget that most of us got wherever we are in life because of someone we knew who kindly took us along.
John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
When he took over the top job in the Soviet Union in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev wasn't tasked with -- nor did he envision -- dismantling the Soviet syste...
AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MOSCOW — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political c...
Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN's John King Sunday on State Of ...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
What an opportunity for Obama, after a tumultuous eight months in office, to announce at the UN an auspicious new beginning for his Administration by sounding America's trumpet as the champion of human rights.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
We all need to look in the mirror and remind ourselves: This isn't about you.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
With the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, the world has entered a new economic context, "social or community capitalism," which will become our paradigm by 2015 - 2020.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
President Obama has held talks with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Reuters reports, "the latest sign of Washington's efforts to 'press the...
AP | DAN PERRY | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MOSCOW — In some of his strongest criticism of his successors, Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the...
Matt Littman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
I believe foreign policy is McCain's weak spot, one that has not been exploited, but one that I believe Obama will pounce on on Friday night.
Murray Fromson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
The latest campaign twister from John McCain is that he is not questioning Barack Obama's patriotism, only his judgment. But what kind of judgment ha...
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
To the Chinese, irrespective of past allegiances, the prospect of war has come to be viewed as counterproductive, and they now have the confidence to show it.
Posted 12.24.2011 | World