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The deal worked out to allow a rise in the debt ceiling gives us our first real chance in more than a decade to make significant cuts to our …

We always hear that unions are in trouble. But that's not the whole story. While nearly one of every three American workers were union members in 1945, …

“on Race” by Howard Zinn, Introduction by Cornel West Seven Stories Press, 2011, $14.95 paperback, 236 pages Princeton professor Cornell West's tribute to the late …

Hopefully the worst of the violence is over in Great Britain. London's fires are cooling into ashes, and with any luck they won't be rekindled. But even though …

Sen. Jon Kyl, (R-Arizona), left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) walk to the Senate floor to vote on a plan to increase the debt ceiling, on Capitol …

Ames, Iowa - For months, Republicans vying for their party's presidential nomination focused their criticisms on the record of Democratic President Barack Obama. On Thursday, they fought to defend …

London - Britain’s latest convulsion of rioting and looting began with a protest against the police handling of a killing in north London, but it soon turned into something …

(Image: LP / Truthout; Adapted: Daniel Fogg, Christopher Najewicz, Martin Wippel) As long as Agent Orange is not addressed, along with the reparations that the US agreed …

(Photo: Pranav Yaddanapudi / Flickr) On Monday the Dow Jones industrial average fell 634.76 points; the sixth-worst point decline for the Dow in the last 112 years …

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader, named the three final appointees Thursday to the super committee on deficit reduction, adding diversity along with budget expertise to a panel …