National Debt Passes $10 Trillion

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The Presidency in Wartime: George W. Bush discovers Woodrow Wilson—By John R. MacArthur (Harper's Magazine)

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Anxious party tells McCain to fight harder

Republicans are urging John McCain to adopt more aggressive tactics against Barack Obama amid fears that the White House is slipping away from them.

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America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role

The banking crisis is upending American dominance of the financial markets and world politics. The industrialized countries are sliding into recession, the era of turbo-capitalism is coming to an end and US military might is ebbing. Still, this is no time to gloat.

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The Atlas of the Real World

The Atlas of the Real World uses software to depict the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects. Here, we select a series of travel- and news-related maps.

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Treasury explains how it came up with $700 billion: We just wanted 'a really large number.'

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