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Skeptics say President Obama is kicking himself in the foot with a trip to Nike's Beaverton, Ore., campus Friday to extol the virtues of free trade. (AP Photo)Â

Economy

Activists on Obama’s Nike trade trip: Just don’t do it

May 7, 2015 9:00 am

U.S .President Obama (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) approach the podiums for a joint press conference at the Rose Garden of the White House. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Magazine

What would a trade victory mean for Obama’s elusive Asia pivot?

Brian Hughes -

May 4, 2015 9:00 am

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will speak to a joint session of Congress on April 29, coinciding with the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo)

Op-Eds

Japan’s man of the hour

Arthur Herman -

April 28, 2015 9:00 am

A man sits with a child on his lap as victims of Saturday's earthquake, wait for ambulances after being evacuated at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. The death toll from Nepal's earthquake is expected to rise depended largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

National Security

Green Berets, C-17s respond to Nepal earthquake

Tara Copp -

April 27, 2015 5:08 pm

President Obama and Hillary Clinton exchanged emails when the former secretary of state relied exclusively on a private account, the White House said Monday. (AP Photo)

Economy

Obama admin: No ‘distance’ from Hillary on trade

Brian Hughes -

April 22, 2015 5:50 pm

More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to combat the disease, a study said. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Healthcare

Shoddy and fake drugs create new pandemic in developing nations

Robert King -

April 20, 2015 6:25 pm

In this March 20, 2013, file photo, Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew attends the Standard Chartered Singapore Forum in Singapore. Singapore's first and longest-serving prime minister Lee Kuan Yew died Monday, the prime minister's office said. He was 91. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Politics

Lee Kuan Yew, longtime leader of Singapore, dies at 91

Joseph Lawler -

March 22, 2015 9:01 pm

Magazine

Why the Internet threatens to ruin the Chinese model

Jimmy Soni -

February 9, 2015 10:00 am

National Security

White House invites Asian leaders for state visits

Susan Crabtree -

February 6, 2015 7:46 pm

Former U.S. special envoy for North Korea policy Stephen Bosworth, top, Joseph DeTrani, bottom right, and Tony Namkung, left, meet during breakfast ahead of meetings with North Korean officials, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Singapore. North Korea's chief nuclear envoy and former U.S. negotiators and security experts were in Singapore to discuss nuclear issues at meetings that started Sunday and will be held over two days. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Foreign Policy

American representatives meet with North Korea over nukes

Jennifer Peebles -

January 18, 2015 5:45 pm

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