By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Will anything improve when Congress returns to Washington? The answer isn't reassuring.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Huma Abedin -- wife of candidate for New York City mayor and disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. -- is confounding political analysts.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Commerce Department is expected Tuesday to report the June deficit on international trade in goods and services was $43 billion.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Republicans are from Venus and U.S. President Barack Obama is from Mars. Nothing better demonstrates this than their stances on taxes, spending and jobs.
By STRUAN STEVENSON, UPI Outside View Commentator
BRUSSELS, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Continued bombings, repeated terrorist attacks and spiraling daily casualties in Iraq have given rise to grave concerns in the international community.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.