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(Photo: twitpic) The Obama administration appears to have given a green light to an Israeli attack on an unarmed flotilla carrying peace and human rights activists — …

Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. (Photo: Drew Angerer / The New York Times) TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…

Michigan is shaping up to be the next big battleground in the Republican-led war on unions and public workers' rights. In March, the state's Republican governor Rick …

In the debt-ceiling debate Republicans are holding the country hostage again, demanding that the country shift to a radical pro-big-corporate/big-wealth agenda as the ransom. At the same time the …

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On September 18, 2009, seven former heads of the CIA publicly told President Barack Obama not to prosecute CIA torturers. On April 16, 2009, Obama had already publicly told …

(Photo: r0b0r0b / Flickr) The Wall Street bailout of 2008 has radically altered the banking business. The bailout was supposed to keep credit flowing to Main Street, …

How many nails does it require to forever whack down the coffin lid on European social democracy? It's a political tradition once animated by socialist principles, though in practice …

Anyone paying attention to the costs of U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan must have known that the president badly underestimated those numbers on June 22, when he …

We've long known that executive pay has skyrocketed during the last 40 years — and especially during the last 20. As the Economic Policy Institute has reported, the average …