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Something you often see in negotiations is a mismatch between one side’s stated sticking points and its real sticking points. In the debate over the debt ceiling, for example, …

Lupe Fiasco, performing at the 2011 Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest. Fiasco appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show, where he criticized President Obama's policies, leaving O'Reilly to defend the president. (Photo: eastscene) …

(Photo: willc2; Edited: JR / Truthout) President Obama is proud of the fact that he was willing to bargain away the core of the country's social safety …

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp., during an interview in his office in New York on Thursday, May 3, 2007. (Photo: James Estrin / The New …

Black America is in crisis. In my neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, families live in small apartments next to empty boarded-up buildings. Cops arrest people at random to meet their quotas. …

Washington - Hours before the negotiations on the debt limit between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner collapsed, political reporters received a missive from Mitt Romney's presidential campaign …

David Hicks, author of “Guantanamo: My Journey.” (Image: Random House Australia) Last week, the Australian government announced that it would initiate legal proceedings to try and seize …

Will Rogers said that when Congress is in session, the public gets the same panicky feeling as “when the baby gets hold of a hammer.” Rogers' observation …

How should music rank among the ever-growing list of time-tested nonviolent methods such as boycotts, marches, strikes, sit-ins, and vigils?

When news began to unfold on Friday of the terror attacks in Norway that has left more than 90 dead, many blogs and Twitter accounts immediately lit up with …