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New York – For the American economy – and for many other developed economies – the elephant in the room is the amount of money paid to bankers over …

(Photo: Brent Danley / Flickr) The national efforts to stem the tide of pollution in the 1960s and 1970s made a difference: Americans had the Environmental Protection …

As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 nears, many ex-Bush administration officials who approved torture in the “war on terror” and botched the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are back …

Muammar Qaddafi. (Photo: Jesse B. Awalt / Wikimedia) On 13 September, one of the world's biggest arms fairs opens in London, backed by the British government. On …

(Image: Center for Economic and Policy Research) Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more …

(Photo: Thomas Hawk / Flickr) ‘'If the top earners are O.K., then the rest of us will be O.K.'’ That piece of economic sleight of …

Despite their professed devotion to tax cuts, a surprising number of Republican lawmakers are less than thrilled with President Obama’s proposed extension of temporary cuts to the payroll tax …

The “credibility” gap has spread from the presidency to the entire political system.

Cairo - A demonstration that brought tens of thousands to this city’s central Tahrir Square turned violent on Friday, when thousands of people — led by a heavy contingent …

With politics in D.C. hitting new lows, few progressives look to either the Obama administration or the two major parties for leadership in restoring the middle class and transitioning …