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Given their highly secretive nature, few people within - or outside - activist circles know what it means to be called to a grand jury and what it takes …

War or no war, this budget just keeps growing in real terms, despite the rise and fall of threats, despite what the rest of the world was spending on …

The future of New York's water supplies and the health of its millions of citizens hang in the balance as Governor Andrew Cuomo decides whether to end the state's …

“Breaking Bad” is a fascinating show. But efforts to compare it to the “Wire,” which systematically analyzed American institutions and the American experience, are misguided.

Modern-day sports (such as football, baseball, basketball and hockey) essentially get defined in patriarchal terms.

u201cWeu2019re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,u201d says campaign pollster Neil Newhouse as Romney's ads continue to spread lies.

Intimately related to economic inequality is the matter of time - in this case as it concerns democracy as well as liberty

The leaders of the North Carolina General Assembly are raising more money from special-interest political action committees than their predecessors, despite promises of ending the state's “pay to play” …

As one of the biggest teachers unions in the country, the CTU's decision is seen as a fight that could re-energize US labor the way the Wisconsin protests did …

AP reports at least eight deaths from tropical storm Issac in Haiti. Over 30 groups working on Haiti have set up the Under Tents campaign in working to ensure …