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When it comes to the “Grand Bargain” they're pushing in Washington, the movie posters for The Fly said it best: Be afraid. Be very afraid. Other people …

No other country in the world comes close to the amount the US spends on defense funding. (Photo: melanieburger)

Like most progressive-minded folk with Canadian friends, I was profoundly aggrieved to hear of Jack Layton's death last Monday. The leader of the New Democratic Party NDP) succumbed to …

(Image: Times Books) The months after the initial publication of Eaarth saw some of the most intense environmental trauma the planet has ever witnessed, events that exemplified …

Tripoli, Libya - Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s second wife and three of his children fled to Algeria on Monday, the Algerian Foreign Ministry said. It was the first official news …

Washington - The indictment of four men linked to Hezbollah in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri made public by the Special Tribunal on Lebanon Aug. …

As ThinkProgress has chronicled at length, Senate Republicans are engaged in an unprecedented campaign of obstruction against President Obama's nominees. As one prong of this campaign, they forced the …

After approximately three months of school takeovers, strikes, and nationwide marches throughout Chile, the unflagging persistence of demonstrators may prove decisive in the ongoing fight against unjust education standards …

Rick Perry links the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and '60s to the struggle of the Republican Party to absolve the wealthiest Americans from paying a fair share …

Israeli writer Uri Avnery recently wrote an article entitled ‘How Godly Are Thy Tents?’, which began with the words, “First of all, a warning.” The reference was …