WARSAW, Poland ? Poland’s government went into defense mode on Monday after a network of online activists paralyzed government websites in opposition to Warsaw’s plans to sign an international copyright treaty. Poland had originally planned to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, in Tokyo on Thursday. ACTA is a far-reaching international agreement that would [...]

Fuel tankers are parked near an oil terminal in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Nigeria’s government and labor unions failed to end a paralyzing nationwide strike over high gasoline costs, potentially sparking an oil production shutdown in a nation vital to U.S. oil supplies. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) Fuel tankers are parked near an oil [...]

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was in Egypt this week as part of his Carter Center’s mission to monitor Egypt’s first parliamentary elections. In between his meetings with various Egyptian political leaders and government officials, he sat down with TIME’s Abigail Hauslohner to answer a few questions about Egypt’s rocky transition, the Arab Spring — [...]

President Barack Obama’s announcement on Friday that all 40,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq will leave the country by New Year’s Eve will, inevitably, draw howls of derision from GOP presidential hopefuls ? this is, after all, early election season. But the decision to leave Iraq by that date was not actually taken by President [...]

The people who make up the TEA Party have issued a Commitment to America (2010) in which they are asking a few things of Congress and our elected leaders. Which of these things do you have a problem with, and why? ?We the People of the United States of America, reclaiming our inalienable rights,demand that [...]