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Joining Cooper are Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent; CNN's national security analyst Peter Bergen; and CNN correspondent Michael Ware. ...

The total cost of McCain's plan is about $352.5 billion, of which about $300 billion would be offset through savings in other areas, for a net cost of about $52.5 billion, according to a preliminary analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan, nonprofit Washington think tank. The total cost of Obama's plan is about $200 billion, of which about $90 billion would be offset through savings in other areas, for a net cost of about $110… more

How would Mr. Obama pay for universal health care, tax cuts for 95 percent of families and the other ambitious initiatives he promised? He declared that he could cover the cost -- "every dime" -- by trimming or eliminating other, unnamed government programs and closing corporate tax loopholes. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan watchdog, estimates Mr. Obama's plans would, in fact, add nearly $300 billion to the already-swollen national debt over his first four years. How exactly would Mr. McCain pay… more

The Hamas takeover of Gaza in June and the resulting West Bank-Gaza split has raised serious questions. What are the short-term prospects for reunification? Can serious political progress be made with Israel without Palestinian reconciliation? What are the elements of a successful and lasting future reconciliation?

There is no doubt that ultimately for political, economic and geopolitical reasons, the West Bank and Gaza must be one territorial unit. Hamas represents a sizable Palestinian constituency that must be engaged and become part… more

According to Greek epidemiologist John Ioannidis, the latest medical research is wrong about one-third of the time - or at least that's what the latest research shows.

Ioannidis, whose findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined 49 widely cited medical studies and found that the results of 14 of them were contradicted or downplayed by later research.

He went so far as to claim that "most published research findings are false."

While Ioannidis' work raises some hard questions… more