Any American political strategist or reporter — I’ve been one for more than four decades — loves the map: That’s the electoral map that decides the presidential election every four years. Each of the 50 states is awarded electors based on its members of Congress, essentially by population; Washington, D.C., for example, gets three votes. In almost all states ...

  Most of the time, it would be very foolish to suggest that a single data release could determine a policy decision by the Federal Reserve. After all, Fed officials — board governors, regional presidents or senior staff members— pride themselves on considering a wide array of numbers and multidimensional models. Yet the jobs report for August that will be ...

  It took four years of difficult negotiations between the Colombian government and The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to strike a historic peace accord to end the 52-year-old conflict that claimed over 260,000 lives, displaced 6.8 million and left 45,000 missing. The pact will now stand the crucial public test when it goes for a referendum on October ...