OPINION

The recent launch of talks between Iranian and Argentine officials over how to improve relations between their countries is troubling enough from a moral standpoint, but the strategic implications are even worse.

One definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over while expecting a different outcome. Well, that pretty much describes our political election process today.

TV news has metamorphosed into a type of entertainment, or if you prefer 'infotainment.'

Halloween would appear to be almost completely incompatible with the tenets of Christianity.

Five keys to technology earnings: the strongest thrive, cash is king, get customers to use products more, look behind scenes.

President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney hold diametrically opposite views on how to pay for the nation’s welfare programs.

Mitt Romney and Al Gore are both the products of a patrician upbringing. One is the son of a U.S. senator. The other is the son of a governor.

The CEO of American International Group recently complained he didn't get a "thank you" after his company repaid the bailout loan.

Malala Yousafzai, has emerged as the face of a new Pakistan.

This week, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) finally ships Windows 8, the OS the company claims is its biggest product in 17 years.

At $90, oil's price remains painfully high. But are we about to experience a gradual easing in crude's price?

One could assume, after President Barack Obama mentioned the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, that it is a magical talisman ensuring women get equal pay for equal work.

We need a new paradigm, a new political pattern for making government work, and it’s pretty far from the ideological “politics as usual” we experience today.

Neither President Barack Obama, nor Gov. Mitt Romney is addressing the need for a new, visionary framework that serves U.S. interests in the region.

Trump, Rodriguez and Bryant share many of the same qualities and are largely despised by a wide swath of the American public.

Bazaaries, the Farsi name for Iran’s traditional merchants, are typically a conservative, wealthy bunch reluctant to involve themselves in politics.

Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot by Taliban gunmen, has become a global icon.

I used to know a family that had striking parallels with a nation that no one in their right mind would want to emulate -- North Korea.

Previous CMJ Music Marathons have seen acts like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The xx, My Morning Jacket, The Killers, The National, Grizzly Bear, Arcade Fire, Passion Pit, Gotye, Mumford & Sons and many more play CMJ before they were household names. With the CMJ Music Marathon 2012 beginning, here are five acts you have to see.

Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for president, was arrested and removed from Hofstra University hours before the Presidential debate.

In an attempt to save the season, the National Hockey League has offered a 50-50 split of all hockey-related revenue with the NHL players’ association. With the offer on the table, the league hopes to start a full 82-game season on Nov. 2.

Sometimes it is the simple things that can make growth in new markets difficult. In Nairobi, Kenya, it’s getting from one place to another.

Recent back-to-back visits to the United States by the top two leaders of Myanmar (better known as Burma) -- opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and current President Thein Sein -- have brought the Southeast Asian nation back into the international spotlight.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned of a possible “cyber-Pearl Harbor,” but ever-bigger networks provide targets.

In the two years since it was signed into law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has generated literally millions of news reports.

The vast ranks of the Euroskeptics are having a field day mocking the EU's Nobel Prize for Peace. They are wrong: It's among the most deserved ever, and here is why

After getting into an altercation with a LIRR conductor I wondered, what do they do?

"You have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week talking about saving Big Bird." That was Mitt Romney at a rally in Iowa this week, saying what needed saying.

In this modern world of everyone moving in so many different directions, at such high speeds, why do we slow down to smile, laugh and gush about pets?