UNITED STATES: AMY M. PAYNE

What IS the Fiscal Cliff for the United States?

With just a few weeks left in 2012, all eyes in Washington are on Capitol Hill and the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. As usual, Congress and the President are taking highly contentious issues down to the wire before cutting a deal—never a situation that ends well for taxpayers.

WORLD: DANIEL DORON

Barack Obama and the crumbling world order

"The results will be what they may, but Israel will have a friend in the White House in January of 2013," according to Oded Eran and Owen Alterman from the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University...