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Since 9/11, the campaign for homeland security has increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies its sought to crush.

Public anger and frustration can ignite in two very different ways. One is toward reforms that more broadly share the productivity gains. The other is toward demagogues that turn …

Shoppers at a Walmart store in Mexico City, March 29, 2012. (Photo: Josh Haner / The New York Times) Wal-mart has long boasted of its “Always Low Prices,” …

President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai during the signing of a partnership agreement at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 2, 2012. (Photo: Doug Mills / …

(Photo: Bob Doran) Last year, over 850,000 people in America were arrested for marijuana-related crimes. Despite public opinion, the medical community, and human rights experts all moving in favor …

Günter Grass, some say, invites controversy. For many years, he excoriated his fellow Germans to come clean about their past and confront the brute facts that might help explain …

The Status Quo Is Unacceptable and Untenable According to Indiana University, over 46 million Americans (1 in 6 of us) are living below the poverty line and this number …

Business being the most pragmatic of all social organizational forms, it historically has focused narrowly on its economic activity without being distracted by the demands of political affiliations, societal …

A Note From the Writer It seems my destiny has placed me here to make my stand for human rights. On March 7 of 1969 in Chicago, I was …

Before there was the NATO summit or the Occupy movement, there was May Day, born and bred in Chicago. This year, with leftists across the country crossing their fingers for …