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The White House has clearly determined that it cannot succeed in bringing security and stability to Afghanistan, says Jeremi Suri. The United States will leave as quickly as it can, providing vague and limited assurances of support for the country.

For the middle class, going to college has become more about jobs and less about self-enrichment, says Stephen Trachtenberg

President Barack Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday included an extraordinary admission: "Our goal is not to build a country in America's image, or to eradicate every vestige of the Taliban. These objectives would require many more years, many more dollars and many more American lives."

Hours before the official announcement that President Barack Obama had landed in Kabul, Afghanistan for a surprise visit, the media -- both social and electronic -- were already buzzing with reports about the trip.

David Frum says the GOP has a problem attracting Latino voters and Marco Rubio as a VP candidate wouldn't change that

A Chinese human rights activist who escaped house arrest and took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing left for a hospital Wednesday, opening a new chapter in the life of a man at the center of a controversy between the United States and China.

Jon Alterman says as former security chiefs blast Prime Minister Netanyahu over Iran, the cracks in Israel's political apparatus are showing.

Hours before the official announcement that President Barack Obama had landed in Kabul, Afghanistan for a surprise visit, the media -- both social and electronic -- were already buzzing with reports about the trip.

Gareth Williams' naked body was found padlocked in a red bag. The coroner says the spy was suffocated or poisoned, but his death may never be fully explained.

President Barack Obama arrives in Richmond this weekend for his first official campaign visit to the battleground state of Virginia, a hyped rally that is mobilizing both Republican and Democratic ground troops for the general election.

Michael Takiff says that despite a cool relationship in the past, the president needs the former president's help in his reelection campaign

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to China on Tuesday, President Barack Obama was tight-lipped about the whereabouts of escaped Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng and his potential impact on the discussions to be held this week in Beijing.

CNN's Dana Bash gets exclusive reaction from GOP Sen. John McCain about President Obama's surprise trip to Afghanistan.

Ilyse Hogue says Americans do admire success, but Romney's gaffes show he simply doesn't understand the lives of average Americans.

The wife of a former top aide to former presidential candidate John Edwards defended Tuesday her husband's motivations for writing a tell-all book about him.

On the first anniversary of bin Laden's death, President Obama travels to Afghanistan to advance a 2014 withdrawal plan.

China wants the U.S. to apologize after Chen Guangcheng took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days. Chen is now in a medical facility in Beijing.

A three-alarm fire broke out Tuesday night in one building in the Tyler Perry Studios in southwest Atlanta, a fire official told CNN.

As international envoy Kofi Annan negotiated a cease-fire in Syria, government forces raided opposition strongholds, killing and detaining residents in attacks amounting to war crimes, a rights group said Wednesday.

The U.S. Justice Department has launched a probe into allegations that up to 80 complaints of sexual assault were not investigated thoroughly in a college town in Montana.