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The EPA issued a rule last week requiring oil and gas firms fracking in federal waters off the coast of southern California to report the volume and chemical makeup …

Paul Krugman: Who knew that Denmark was doing so badly? The likely culprit is a very high level of household debt.

The bridgegate scandal is a window into how federal agencies and the security and surveillance apparatus would be routinely employed in a Christie presidency to punish anyone who challenged …

Eugene Robinson: Shame on Republicans for blocking long-term unemployment benefits for 1.3 million Americans. And shame on Democrats for letting them.

William Rivers Pitt: Maybe, government isn't the problem. Maybe the people we allow into government are the problem with government.

Republicans are all upset about people getting government benefits, but our nation's real welfare queens are this country's billionaires and biggest corporations.

The hidden ball in the debate over the NSA's collection of phone and e-mail metadata is that the NSA actually prefers the metadata approach because it strips away privacy …

Sometimes defending freedom does not require the use of bombs, rockets, or jet planes.

The trade deal itself remains far from finalized, opposition continues to grow in participating countries, and even editorial boards weighing in against the deal.

The explosive residue of America's atomic bombing of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 dominates relations between Japan and the United States.