Egyptian mediator: Progress in talks between Israel, Hamas

From the Blog of Phyllis G. Pollack. Settlement agreements can be difficult to get out of. The Sixth Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal made this point clear...

Should we be celebrating the fact that Congress finally voted yesterday to allow the federal government to re-open and pay its bills? The bi-partisan agreement to re-open the government merely...

Secretary of State, John Kerry, has said famously that if he could just get the relevant parties into the room, he could make a deal in almost any conflict.  See...