Politics

A catch-up phone call, a courier who drove 90 minutes to use a cellphone — and a tall man pacing a walled courtyard. How the CIA zeroed in on Abbottabad.

After leaving California's governorship, Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to the screen with The Last Stand and Escape Plan — a comeback built on range, age,

After the SEALs left Abbottabad, cameras got inside bin Laden's compound: bloodstained floors, scattered belongings, and the wreckage of the burned helicopter.

After the Abbottabad raid, Salman Rushdie called for Pakistan to be declared a terrorist state — the sharpest version of a question Washington was dodging.

After the Abbottabad raid, Pakistan faced pointed questions from Washington and humiliation at home — the competence-or-complicity trap the ISI couldn't escape.

Bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout sat about a mile from Pakistan's elite military academy — a custom-built compound with 14-foot walls and no phone or internet.

Why was bin Laden called 'Geronimo'? The raid code word, what it actually meant, and the backlash from Native Americans who found it offensive.

Days after the Abbottabad raid, a pro-Taliban party held Pakistan's first public rally honoring bin Laden — small in size, heavy in symbolism.

The trail to bin Laden began with a courier's pseudonym and ended at an oversized compound in Abbottabad. How U.S. intelligence connected the dots.

Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in Abbottabad in May 2011. The raid, the announcement, and what his death did and didn't change.

Days before the 2011 royal wedding, the Kate-vs-Diana comparison industry ran hot. Why mapping one woman onto another said more about the public.

Boston Globe documents revealed Barack Obama Sr. was pushed out of Harvard in 1964 — complicating the family history the president had written about.

As Pope John Paul II was beatified in 2011, Indian clergy recalled his unfulfilled wish to bathe in the Ganga — a window on his interfaith imagination.

In 2011, quiet Hindu-Muslim conversations sought a way past the Ayodhya deadlock — the civil-society side of a dispute courts alone couldn't settle.

In 2011, Pakistan's PM Gilani reportedly urged Afghan President Karzai to pivot from Washington toward Beijing — a bold but unsuccessful diplomatic play.

In 2011, Trump claimed Obama had been a poor student unworthy of his Ivy League admissions — offering no proof while pressing the birth-certificate campaign.

Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign — the money bombs, the New Hampshire second place, the delegate leverage, and the libertarian message that outlasted

Roubini’s 2011 “China’s Bad Growth Bet” warned of overinvestment at 50% of GDP and a hard landing after 2013. The thesis, the evidence, and what actually

Obama's April 2011 budget speech split the pundits: a masterful politician but a less courageous leader. Was shrewdness enough for a second term?

Indian Americans fumed over India's 2011 passport-surrender rules: new requirements, delayed visas, and one of the diaspora's most resented bureaucratic fights.