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In Election 2012’s theatre-of-the-absurd “foreign policy” debate, Iran came up no less than 47 times. Despite all the fear, loathing, threats, and lies in that billionaire’s circus of a campaign season, …

Whatever one’s views about his alleged actions, you would need a pretty hard shell not to be moved by the case of Bradley Manning. Hero to some, traitor to …

The 18th round of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicked off in Doha, Qatar. To be a part of the discussion, read these stories.

While the government needs a warrant to tap your phones, relaxed laws surrounding technology makes most of your daily communications an open book for law enforcement.

Paul Krugman: Today's Republican Party is an alliance between the plutocrats and the preachers.

Those who support or oppose gay marriage rights want to see the mattered settled.

Amid shaking earth, collapsing ground and toxic air and water, residents wonder if they can ever go home.

Imagine what a maverick GOP senator could accomplish if he joined forces with a muckraking journalist to get the facts on the bloated DoD budget.

Americans committed to a renewal of democracy are likely to discover this can only be meaningfully achieved in units of scale smaller than a continent.

A federal right to vote will effectively neuter politically-motivated state lawmakers and election officials who care less about a robust democracy and more about rigging elections.