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(Image: JR / TO; Adapted: zota, kalavinka) Five years ago, I joined a group of leaders of the Southern California Muslim community in an attempt to find …

Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so. Throughout the scramble for …

"Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied …

Actress Anne Hathaway marches with demonstrators on the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: Elana Levin) If the US fought for the post-carbon economy the way …

Newt Gingrich upset GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney in South Carolina tonight, beating him by what will likely be a comfortable margin in the the state’s Republican presidential primary. …

A recent New York Times op-ed by Dowell Myers argues that we need to shift from an “immigration policy,” focused on border enforcement, to an “immigrant policy” focused on the integration …

Blacks are about twice as likely as whites to wind up in the more onerous and costly form of consumer bankruptcy as they try to dig out from their …

The voting systems in use for the nation's first three all-important electoral contests in the 2012 primary —- from Iowa to New Hampshire to Saturday's South Carolina Primary —- …

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Photo: Andrew Burton / The New York Times) Many people on Wall Street are befuddled. After all, a private equity firm creating …

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. (Photo: Josh Haner / The New York Times) If you're not a campaign finance wonk, …