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President Barack Obama plans to withdraw most U.S. troops from Iraq by August 2010 and the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes. Brookings expert Elizabeth Ferris describes how these two decisions will affect the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Iraq and Darfur.

A report by the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group, entitled “Forget Not the Beijing Olympics’ Victims,” urges readers to remember that despite China’s promises to improve human rights, the Olympics ended up serving as an excuse for the Chinese government to arrest and imprison thousands of people who had shown signs of opposition to the current regime.

The G-20 is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies, 19 of the world’s largest national economies and the European Union.

Is this the end of conservatism? Not quite.

One scholar prescribes training for an army of teachers.

Because of the inefficient nature of paper records in healthcare, many hospitals and facilities have turned to a computerized system as reform.

U.S. Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) argued at a Conservative Bloggers Briefing that the government’s sacrifice is either non-existent or extremely minimal.

What do radicals of different generations have in common? For one, some believe that Israel is an imperialist Zionist state intent on the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

the Heritage Foundation, Senator John McCain, R.-Az., discussed the state of the economy and his alternative stimulus plan.

Despite sustained opposition from China, the Dalai Lama remains one of the world’s most respected and influential spiritual leaders.

At the Heritage Foundation recently, panelists discussed the role of subsidies in energy policy and answered the question, is subsidizing commercial energy projects the best way for America to achieve it’s energy goals?

The policies of Beverly Perdue, the Democratic governor of North Carolina, were brought into question recently by a report showing that North Carolina’s high school dropout rate is getting worse, despite millions of dollars set aside in the state budget.