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Seemingly lost in the dispute over what Speaker Pelosi says she was not told are the implications of what she acknowledges she was told. The speaker says she was made aware seven years ago that the CIA was contemplating using so-called enhanced interrogation techniques — including waterboarding — and that …

A German book publisher has canceled a novel about Islamic “honor killings,” fearing that the book would offend the Muslim community and put him in danger. Critics of the decision call it a cowardly move, but others say the publisher is simply being responsible. The publisher of the book, which …

In breaking with her Republican colleagues to vote for that Senate committee bill, Senator Snowe said she still has reservations about it, especially about its cost. And with good reason. Consider what just happened to the bill in recent days. Central to it was a tradeoff. Insurance companies would no …