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A man walks in front of the Deauville Congress Center, in Deauville, western France on Monday, May 23, 2011 where world leaders of the G8 will meet for a summit May 26 and May 27. World leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations will put aside the squabbling over deficits and austerity that has marked their recent gatherings and seek to marshall their combined economic might behind the grass-roots democracy movements that have swept North Africa and the Middle East since their last meeting a year ago. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (AP)

Arab uprisings top agenda as Obama attends G-8

Julie Pace
Two days of meetings in France are getting under way today
Ronald Reagan

The big debt lie

Gene Lyons
After three decades of failed experiments, you'd think we might finally give up on supply-side economics
In this photo released by the Hamas Media Office, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center-left, and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, center-right, shake hands at a ceremony in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday proclaimed a landmark, Egyptian-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift, at a declaration ceremony in the Egyptian capital Cairo. (AP Photo/Hamas Media Office) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES ** (AP)

Palestinians set their sights on UN recognition

Karin Laub
Palestinians are counting on growing international support for bypassing Israel en route to statehood
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Sudan’s al-Bashir gives ‘green light’ for attacks

Katharine Houreld
Both Sudan's north and south claim the border Abyei region
Bill Moyers talks with Andrew Bacevich on "Bill Moyers Journal" in 2009.

Democracy talks — listen up!

Michael Winship
"Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues" helps make sense of the world we lived in from 2007 to 2010
A man walks in front of the Deauville Congress Center, in Deauville, western France on Monday, May 23, 2011 where world leaders of the G8 will meet for a summit May 26 and May 27. World leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations will put aside the squabbling over deficits and austerity that has marked their recent gatherings and seek to marshall their combined economic might behind the grass-roots democracy movements that have swept North Africa and the Middle East since their last meeting a year ago. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (AP)

G-8 leaders to marshal support for Arab nations

Greg Keller
Group of Eight leaders will meet with representatives from Egypt, Tunisia and the head of the Arab League
El presidente de Estados Unidos Barack Obama y el primer ministro británico David Cameron participan en una conferencia de prensa conjunta el miércoles 25 de mayo de 2011 en la mansión de Lancaster en Londres. (Foto AP/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama, Cameron say no let-up in Libya

Julie Pace
The president ruled out a deadline for ending NATO's military assault
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and U.S. President Barack Obama during a state banquet in Buckingham Palace, London, on Tuesday May 24, 2011. President Barack Obama immersed himself in the grandeur of Britain's royal family Tuesday, as Queen Elizabeth II welcomed him to Buckingham Palace for the first day of a state visit. (AP Photo/Lewis Whyld, Pool) (AP)

Obama mistimes his toast to the Queen

Natasha Lennard
The orchestra thought Obama had finished speaking at a Buckingham Palace dinner. He hadn't
Democratic candidate for the 26th District Congressional seat, Kathy Hochul arrives at a campaign stop at a restaurant in Amherst, N.Y., Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Hochul is running against Republican Jane Corwin and tea party candidate Jack Davis in the race to succeed Republican Chris Lee. Lee resigned in February after shirtless photos surfaced that he'd sent to a woman on Craigslist. (AP Photo/David Duprey) (AP)

So this is what GOP overreach produces

Steve Kornacki
Democrats score a special election triumph in a solidly Republican district. What a difference six months can make
US President Barack Obama, watched by his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, signs the distinguished visitors book during a tour of Westminster Abbey, in central London, Tuesday May 24, 2011. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama traded-in Irish charm for the pomp and pageantry of Buckingham Palace Tuesday as they opened a state visit to Britain at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II. (AP Photo/John Stillwell/Pool) (AP)

Obama apparently unaware what year it is

Natasha Lennard
Signing the guestbook at Westminster Abbey, the president gets the date wrong ... by three years
Meghan Miller stands in the middle of a destroyed neighborhood as she checks on her sister-in-law's home Monday, May 23, 2011, in Joplin , Mo. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) (AP)

Search for Missouri twister survivors intensifies

Jim Salter, Alan Scher Zagier
Rescue effort zeroes in on wreckage of big-box stores and apartment complexes as more severe storms are forecast
U.S. President Barack Obama, second left, and first lady Michelle Obama, right, walk with Britain's Prince Charles, left, and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, at Winfield House in London, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obamas welcomed at Buckingham Palace

Julie Pace
First couple receive a 41-gun salute after tour of the royal residence, where they will stay for two nights
Sky over Tripoli, Libya, is illuminated by explosions during an airstrike, early Tuesday, May 24, 2011. NATO warplanes were repeatedly hitting Tripoli early Tuesday in what appears to be the heaviest night of bombing of the Libyan capital since the start of the air campaign against Moammar Gadhafi's forces. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) (AP)

NATO airstrikes hit Tripoli, heaviest bombing yet

Michelle Faul, Diaa Hadid
Action against Libyan regime intensifying, as Obama invites rebels to White House
Clockwise from left: Niall Ferguson, Glenn Beck, Jonah Goldberg and Ann Coulter

Niall Ferguson and the brain-dead American right

Michael Lind
The British historian owes his celebrity here to the absence of authentic American conservative intellectuals
Passengers rest on the floor as their flights have been canceled at Edinburgh Airport in Edinburgh, Scotland Tuesday, May 24, 2011. A dense ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano blew toward Scotland, causing airlines to cancel Tuesday flights and raising fears of a repeat of last year's huge travel disruptions in Europe that stranded millions of passengers. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell) (AP)

Volcanic ash will cancel up to 500 flights

Slobodan Lekic, Meera Selva
Ash from the Grimsvotn volcano has already forced President Obama to shorten his visit to Ireland
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama drink Guinness beer as they meet with local residents at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Fox News invents the possibility of a U.S.-Ireland bailout

Natasha Lennard
The cable channel speculates, without any basis, about whether Obama will support a U.S.-funded bailout of Ireland
Jim Daly

Focus on the Family head basically gives up on fighting gay marriage

Alex Pareene
With polls showing growing acceptance of same-sex marriage, the huge religious right organization sounds resigned

Donald Trump enters the “revisionism” phase

Steve Kornacki
You know, the polls showed me running in first place when I got out ...
President Obama smiles as he shakes hands with a crowd of local residents in Moneygall.

Our first black Irish president

Joan Walsh
Obama's warm words about his Irish family could help him politically at home
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama drink Guinness beer as they meet with local residents at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama leaving Ireland early as ash cloud looms

Julie Pace
The president was scheduled to spend Monday night in Ireland, but will fly to London instead
In this photo released by the Hamas Media Office, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center-left, and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, center-right, shake hands at a ceremony in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday proclaimed a landmark, Egyptian-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift, at a declaration ceremony in the Egyptian capital Cairo. (AP Photo/Hamas Media Office) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES ** (AP)

Abbas defends unity deal against US criticism

Dale Gavlak
The Palestinian president delivers his first remarks on Obama's recent speeches
President Obama arrives to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention on Sunday.

Is Obama really getting tough on Israel?

Justin Elliott
The co-author of "the Israel Lobby" responds to the storm over Obama's Mideast speech
Roger Ailes and Chris Christie

Roger Ailes really, really wants Chris Christie to run for president

Alex Pareene
The Fox News head also reportedly thinks Sarah Palin is an idiot
An Afghan policeman stands guard at the scene of an explosion in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, May 22, 2011. In Kandahar, two police officers suffered injuries Sunday when a motorcycle laden with explosives detonated as they tried to disarm it, the ministry said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) (AP)

Taliban denies leader has been killed in Pakistan

Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez
The insurgent group claims that Mullah Omar is alive and well in Afghanistan
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