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Congress passes legislation to spend, but it's the president who must ensure those bills get paid. Those two objectives don't neatly line up.

This month's battles over the budget and the Tea Party Republicans' fanaticism about the health care law obscure the two parties' common commitment to austerity.

Sam Pizzigati: Today, more than ever, we need to refocus the federal ‘tax and spend’ debate - from deficits to inequality.

US special forces in Libya on Saturday captured a senior al Qaida leader who had been sought since 1998 for involvement in the coordinated bombings of two US embassies …

Noam Chomsky: Is the president veering toward isolationism? Or will he proudly carry the banner of exceptionalism?

It's been a decade since the nation was shocked by images of torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, and yet for at least one prisoner, a dual …

Intervention - radical struggle - seeks human happiness, tranquility, liberation. While the threats aligned today against the realization of these ends are considerable, it is clear humanity is capable …

Looking past the shutdown and budget battle, the big picture is that America's four decade-long drift to the right is decisively over.

In Latin America, opposition to military intervention in Syria reflects the wariness of a region long beset with U.S. interventions of its own.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched a blistering attack on the United States for illegally infiltrating its communications network, surreptitiously intercepting phone calls, and breaking into the Brazilian Mission to …