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Even some otherwise well-informed people still grapple with myths and half-truths about the European welfare state, and what is sometimes labeled European socialism.

Directed by Rod Blackhurst, this parody commercial pokes fun at the GOP health care plan. Together, we can stand for the right to a Right life.

This week, President Jose “Pepe” Mujica offered to welcome detainees from the US's detention center at its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The ACLU's case against the US Bishops Conference u2013 heralded by some as a bold legal stroke u2013 could be thwarted on procedural grounds.

A system based on inequality and oppression cannot survive.

This week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein gave a speech on the Senate floor that Sen. Patrick Leahy described as one of the most important he had ever witnessed.

The funeral industry is, by and large, a $20 billion for-profit enterprise, whose environmental impact has been greatly overlooked.

It's pretty unusual for two-thirds of a group of doctors to agree on something as controversial as a single-payer health care system.

A recent fire and radiation release at a uranium repository in New Mexico has brought renewed focus on what to do with a growing stockpile of radioactive waste.

In recent months conservatives have been boasting about the strong job growth of red state Texas compared to the much weaker job growth of blue state California. It's worth …