"Is this a revolution and are these revolutionaries? By God, I say they are a bunch of criminals."

"They are the enemies of God, and they will go to hell." Assad speaks.

"Time honors Sandra Fluke as 'Person of the Year' finalist."

That's the Breitbart headline for an item that begins "Just when you think Time magazine can’t make any more of a mockery of itse...

Live-blogging the big last debate.

7:06 Central Time: Get ready! 7:32: In the comments, Sorun said, "I predict a big Obama win tonight, since the only people watching wil...

"This will be my last political campaign, no matter what. I've got nothing else to run for."

President Obama, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, yesterday. The "I've got nothing else to run for" is a response to a sad "oh...

"When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood..."

"... to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead. The Syrian boy tried to stop himself from trembling, even as the gunmen, wi...

"Islamists’ Ideas on Democracy and Faith Face Test in Tunisia."

A new article by Anthony Shadid , the "gifted foreign correspondent whose graceful dispatches for The New York Times, The Washington Po...

People who believed in the "Gay Girl in Damascus" need to explain why they believed this person was real and not fictional.

I'm not interested in the 40-year-old man who pretended to be young, Syrian, and lesbian. I'm interested in how intelligent people ...

"I simply do not know how the brutal torture of children can be surpassed as an example of pure evil."

"What is happening in Syria has become morally intolerable even under the standards of the Middle East."

Hillary Clinton distinguishes Assad from Qaddaffi.

Syria is not Libya. I hope you can understand why. Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s security forces clashed with protesters in several ci...