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If viewers accept the conceits of this essentially escapist entertainment they embrace the notion that there can be

As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. …

The defection of Syriau2019s prime minister, Riyad Farid Hijab, began like so many others: with coded conversations and furtive planning. He began discussing the idea of fleeing, an aide …

Mitt Romney's defiant secrecy about his personal finances looks like a cross Republicans will have to bear all the way to Election Day. To put it mildly, the burden …

Truthout's Leslie Thatcher conducted an email interview with activist and academic Peter Dreier, author of

The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of Americau2019s counties …

Recently, however, U.S. Attorneys in states such as California and Colorado, where medical marijuana use is legal, have began threatening to seize the buildings that house medical marijuana dispensaries …

There is not a single federal agency that has tracked foreclosures comprehensively, a massive information gap that prevents the work of journalists, advocates and policymakers alike.

I think a serious fundamental defect in Mitt has been on display for a long time.

Black male unemployment is 14.8 percent, and the current trend is up.