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The $956 billion farm bill that President Obama signed into law on Feb. 7 got mixed reviews from progressive advocates.

Once again, Florida's Stand Your Ground law has helped a man escape conviction for killing an African-American teenager.

Flipping through the New York Times magazine a few Sundays ago, former hospital executive Paul Levy was taken aback by a full-page ad for the da Vinci robot.

In an election year, there are always winners and losers. Rarely, however, are there so many victims.

The credit card business is now the banking industry's biggest cash cow, and it's largely due to lucrative hidden fees.

Setting the record straight seems to be the last intention of the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration website.

Chris Hedges: Those who wield unchecked power over the citizenry live in “the prerogative state,” and the masses trapped in their totalitarian structure live in “the normative state.”

Supposedly, the one thing that's held up sending in the drones is the administration's desire to make sure the kill is “legal.”

Giant, money-sucking phone companies are only one symptom of the monolithic prison-industrial complex that rules this country. But they're a potent one.

In Argentina, we're seeing a mini-revival of what the economists Rudi Dornbusch and Sebastian Edwards long ago called “macroeconomic populism.”