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By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department will report Friday the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in July, down from 195,000 in June, and the unemployment rate will slip a notch to 7.5 percent.
Muslim Brotherhood crackdown
By NINO SAVIANO, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Egypt appears to have turned the clock back to the Mubarak era. The military is the kingmaker while Muslim Brotherhood leaders are imprisoned and the organization is being driven underground.
By BRUCE M. RICKERSON, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- By all indications, perhaps one of the most critical decisions -- membership for Ukraine -- the European Union will ever make is coming down to the wire.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- This column advances what the United States must do to get its domestic house in order.
Obama stirs passions but makes income inequality worse
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 31 (UPI) -- Slow economic growth and increasing inequality are ripping the social fabric of the United States -- vanquishing the dreams of working families, saddling the young with onerous student debt and frustrating retirement plans.
Napolitano's failing Homeland report card
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., July 30 (UPI) -- After heading the Department of Homeland Security for four years, Janet Napolitano announced she will depart in September. Wishing her well, U.S. President Barack Obama claimed the "American people are safer and more secure thanks to Janet's leadership in protecting our homeland against terrorist attacks."
Iran: Lessons learned
By ANDRE LE GALLO, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- The author's experiences in Iran can provide lessons for current policies in dealing with Tehran.
By WHITNEY GRESPIN, UPI Outside View Commentator
ARLINGTON, Va., July 26 (UPI) -- The international community is seeing a drastic shift from putting boots on the ground to solve problems and is maximizing leverage gained from having eyes in the sky.
Obama jobs campaign: Politics as usual
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is on the campaign trail to sell his economic program directly to voters -- over the head of a reluctant U.S. Congress. He says it's all about jobs but it's just politics as usual.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- Few entities are more in need of resurrection than the governance of the United States.
The slog ahead for Japan's Abe
By SHIHOKO GOTO, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- The ruling Japanese Liberal Democratic Party's landslide victory in the Upper House elections was effectively a referendum about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy to date.
By JONATHAN ADELMAN and ASAF ROMIROWSKY, UPI Outside View Commentators
PHILADELPHIA, July 23 (UPI) -- The chaos gripping the Middle East, especially Syria, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, is leading to a surprising turnabout for many powers, in and outside of the region.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., July 23 (UPI) -- Transportation Security Administration's SPOT program could be more effective.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 22 (UPI) -- The United States doesn't enjoy the preponderance of assets needed to go everywhere and settle every dispute.
By JAVIER PALOMAREZ, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- Let's talk about good news. It's called broadband and, as a June 2013 White House report makes clear, there's a lot to celebrate.
Easy money, the opiate of the U.S. economy
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Mass., July 18 (UPI) -- Much like a drug addict, the U.S. economy is hooked on the Federal Reserve's easy money policies.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- A specter is haunting the United States. That specter is one of American decline. But this specter isn't merely exaggerated. It is poppycock.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., July 16 (UPI) -- Leadership in Iran and North Korea leave their countries in a science fiction-type nightmare.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 15 (UPI) -- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has convinced financial markets easy money policies will continue as long as needed. That may be forever and those policies place U.S. prosperity and sovereignty at grave risk.
Iran's new 'moderate' president has duped the West
By STRUAN STEVENSON, UPI Outside View Commentator
BRUSSELS, July 12 (UPI) -- How easily the West allows itself to be repeatedly duped by the religious fascist rulers of Iran.
Mr. President missing in action?
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Regional crises abound. Massive protests in Egypt that ended the flailing Morsi government to continued bloodshed from Afghanistan to Syria are representative of these crises.
Obama has little choice but to back Egyptian military
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 10 (UPI) -- In Egypt, the United States is once again confronted with a tough choice between backing the champions of the status quo ante -- a military-endorsed regime that resembles that of deposed President Hosni Mubarak -- or accepting an Islamic state.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 9 (UPI) -- The tragedy in Egypt is a warning to Americans -- imperious executive power is a threat to liberty everywhere.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., July 9 (UPI) -- Only the Hebrew word "chutzpah" appropriately describes it but a recent demand of the Vatican by Egypt's senior Sunni cleric Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb screams for its use.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Labor Department announced last week that the U.S. economy added 195,000 jobs in June. The pace appears to be picking up but it is still not the 360,000 jobs needed each month to bring unemployment down to 6 percent over the next three years.
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2013 Presidents Cup Third Round at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio
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United States Team member Tiger Woods (L) kisses girlfriend Lindsey Vonn on the 18th green after he and teammate Matt Kuchar defeated International Team members Hideki Matsuyama of Japan and Adam Scott of Australia 1-up during the third round four-ball competition at the 2013 Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio on October 5, 2013. UPI/Brian Kersey