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Rebel fighters walk toward the front line on Tripoli Street past trees that have had their branches blown off during heaving fighting in Misrata, Libya, May 4, 2011. (Photo: …

"There is only one person who should lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and that is the brilliant advocate who championed it, the remarkable administrator who has helped get …

(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Kudos to Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, for saying the …

Joplin, Missourri - The death toll from Sunday's tornado is now 116, city officials said Monday afternoon, with an estimated 400 injured. But there was some good …

For the past week, in anticipation of local elections this weekend (May 21-22), Spanish students and young people defied legal injunctions and held protests in the country’s major cities. …

In Wisconsin, tens of thousands of public-sector workers were going to work every day, helping the people in the DMV, hospitals, health care centers, public transportation: teachers, fire fighters, …

Supreme Court Endorses Cutting California Prison Population The Associated Press reports that the Supreme Court on Monday voted 5-4 to reduce California's prison population by more than …

President Obama is mulling an executive order to force big government contractors to disclose details of their political spending. Big businesses are already telling their political patrons in Congress …

Dear Reader, When it comes to upholding progressive American values, most of our institutions are in decline, if not already defunct. It’s pretty clear that we can’t …

The Syrian government is cracking down on protesters' use of social media and the Internet to promote their rebellion just three months after allowing citizens to have open access …