What is and isn't Islam?
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America's saving rate and the dollar's future
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Owning up to Israel's bomb
TEL AVIV: President Barack Obama's vision of a world without nuclear weapons,…
Daring to hope in Pakistan's Swat Valley
ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Often referred to as the "Switzerland of Pakistan , Swat…
Good and bad capitalism
PARIS: The reality of market exchange - direct transactions between merchants and…
Religious pluralism in today's Muslim world
PHILADELPHIA: In his June 4 speech to the Muslim world from Cairo,…
Civil society unbound
MOSCOW: The challenges facing civil-society organizations are greater in Russia than in…
Fear: the underrated enabler
WASHINGTON, DC: In 1997, at a time when I travelled frequently from…
My plan to drop the bomb
NEW YORK: The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 marked an…