World & Nation
Impressive gains by religious and extreme right-wing parties appeared to give Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s Likud Party the best chance to assemble a ruling coalition in close, possibly pivotal national elections here Tuesday.
Nov. 2, 1988
Politics: Party faces pressure from internal competing ideologies, external political rivals. Absence of consistent central doctrine fosters divisions.
Nov. 1, 1998
Pro-reform candidates, including radical populist Boris N.
March 6, 1990
Sixteen years after Iran’s revolution launched militant Islam as a powerful modern political force, the broader Islamist movement has fractured, deeply, into diverse and often disparate strains--in some cases even rivalries.
Feb. 7, 1995
Politics
It happened in 1968, although we were not aware of it then.
Jan. 13, 1995
Babylon & Beyond
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March 16, 2010
Hillary Clinton’s political pragmatism made her slow to embrace the effort to double the federal minimum wage.
July 28, 2016
Balkans: Nations can contribute cash, training and expansion of Web capacities to keep the press independent.
May 25, 2000
Nation Now
Oct. 17, 2011
In smoke-filled offices and coffee shops across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, onetime Palestinian guerrillas are struggling to remake their liberation movement into political parties capable of competing in elections.
Sept. 29, 1995