World

Russia's brokering of a deal on Syria prompts Mel Lavine to revisit his attitudes shaped by the Soviet era.

In the fine-tuned obituaries of the New York Times, the deed or misdeed of a notable name is almost always enshrined in the first sentence.

The controversy over leaks has turned journalist against journalist.

The leaders of the United States and Mexico are engaged in a joint effort to brighten the image of Mexico, long darkened by violence, drugs, corruption and impunity for killers and kidnappers.

What has the U.S. achieved by pumping $60 billion — an average of $625,000 every hour — into Iraq to fix what the American invasion 10 years ago had broken?

Not all that much, according to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. The biggest American reconstruction project since the post-World War II Marshall plan was crippled by bad planning, fraud, corruption and outright theft.