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Prisoners at Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Ariz., Oct. 16, 2009. (Photo: Monica Almeida / The New York Times) After last week’s breakthrough in mitigating the damage …

(Photo: David Reber's Hammer Photography) The breakdown on debt limit negotiations between Republicans and Democrats last week was over draconian cuts in the social wage (Social Security, …

Obama: The U.S. Is Bombing Libya But This Isn't War The U.S. Congress's informal protest over Obama's sidestepping the War Powers Act concerning U.S. participation in the …

No workers are more in need of union protection than the nation's miserably treated farm workers. Yet a promising new effort to ease their path to unionization has been …

There are a handful of misconceptions that have been parroted repeatedly in media coverage of the “Arab Spring.”

What if there was a group of terrorists holding your family hostage with a gun pointed at themselves, demanding the account number to your pension fund? Would you negotiate …

This image shows the Reaper, a Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS), part of 39 Squadron Royal Air Force. The Reaper has completed 20,000 operational flight hours in theatre, and …

Demonstrators board the American boat, “The Audacity of Hope,” which planned to be part of the international flotilla to Gaza, at a port near Athens, Greece, June 30, 2011. …

On June 30, QE2 ended with a whimper. The Fed's second round of “quantitative easing” involved $600 billion created with a computer keystroke for the purchase of long-term government …

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) delivers a Republican response to President Barack Obama's speech on the national debt at the Capitol in Washington, April 13, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews …